03.04.2020 - 08:12 [ Yahoo.com ]

Trump touts chloroquine for ‚immediate‘ use treating coronavirus, but FDA wants to see the data first

“It’s shown very encouraging, very, very encouraging early results, and we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA has been so great,” Trump said. “They’ve gone through the approval process, it’s been approved and they did it, they took it down from many, many months to immediate.”

But moments later, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn cautioned that chloroquine had not yet been approved for treating COVID-19.