“We saw Trump on TV — every channel — and all of his buddies and that this was safe,” the woman told NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard of President Donald Trump. “Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure.”
NBC News reported that the man, 68, and his wife, 61, took chloroquine to guard against the novel coronavirus, which causes a potentially fatal disease known as COVID-19. It’s not clear how much chloroquine the man ingested, and Banner Health said he and his wife ingested a version of the chemical that’s used to clean aquariums.
Both of them needed to seek medical care within half an hour; the woman is in critical condition, and the man died.
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Chloroquine is used to treat malaria, but there is no conclusive evidence it is effective against the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic earlier this month.
Trump, however, repeatedly touted the drug as a “very powerful” treatment for the disease and falsely claimed it had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
“It’s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results,” Trump said last week. "And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.
And that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — 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. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states."
The FDA came out with a statement after Trump’s comments saying it had not approved chloroquine for the coronavirus and that much more research had to be done.
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“We saw Trump on TV — every channel — and all of his buddies and that this was safe,” the woman told NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard of President Donald Trump. “Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure.”
NBC News reported that the man, 68, and his wife, 61, took chloroquine to guard against the novel coronavirus, which causes a potentially fatal disease known as COVID-19. It’s not clear how much chloroquine the man ingested, and Banner Health said he and his wife ingested a version of the chemical that’s used to clean aquariums.
Both of them needed to seek medical care within half an hour; the woman is in critical condition, and the man died.
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Chloroquine is used to treat malaria, but there is no conclusive evidence it is effective against the coronavirus, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic earlier this month.
Trump, however, repeatedly touted the drug as a “very powerful” treatment for the disease and falsely claimed it had been approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
“It’s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results,” Trump said last week. "And we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately.
And that’s where the FDA has been so great. They — 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. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states."
The FDA came out with a statement after Trump’s comments saying it had not approved chloroquine for the coronavirus and that much more research had to be done.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-woman-husband-died-chloroquine-warns-not-to-trust-trump-2020-3