President Trump and the leading scientific expert on infectious diseases on his coronavirus task force offered starkly different views Friday about whether Americans should feel hopeful that the antimalarial drug chloroquine could be used to stop the spread of COVID-19.
One day after Trump said chloroquine had shown “very encouraging early results” treating COVID-19 and would be rolled out to patients “almost immediately,” Dr. Anthony Fauci was asked at a briefing in Washington whether there was any evidence to suggest that taking the drug would help prevent a person from coming down with COVID-19.
Typically such a trial would be conducted before the FDA approved a drug for use against a specific disease. In the case of chloroquine, it is already approved for use against malaria, and doctors can legally prescribe it for so-called off-label uses, which could include treating the coronavirus. Trump appeared to be encouraging this practice, based on his being a “big fan” of the drug.
Trump was then asked by Roberts whether chloroquine had been shown to be effective against SARS during the 2002-03 outbreak of that virus. “Let’s see if it works. It might and it might not. I happen to feel good about it, but who knows? I’ve been right a lot. Let’s see what happens,” Trump said. Despite an apparent divergence with the president on how to regard the potential for chloroquine to end the pandemic, Fauci insisted that his science-based conclusions were compatible with Trump’s “feeling about it.”
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