WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is revoking its emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause deadly side effects.
The agency said Monday that the drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating the coronavirus. Citing reports of heart complications, the FDA said the drugs pose a greater risk to patients than any potential benefits.
The decades-old drugs, also prescribed for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis, can cause heart rhythm problems, severely low blood pressure and muscle or nerve damage.
The move means that shipments of the drugs obtained by the federal government will no longer be distributed to state and local health authorities. The drugs are still available for alternate uses, so U.S. doctors could still prescribe them for COVID-19 — a practice known as off-label prescribing.
Aren’t they supposed to do that shit quietly in the dead of night on a Friday when no one is paying attention? The nerve of tRump’s FDA to do this to the Royal Orange Fat Ass.
Will we ever find out how many people were harmed, or wasted money on, this bogus “cure”? I can visualize the late-night lawyer ads now: “Were you the victim of Donald Trump’s hydroxychloroquine scam? Call this number!”
What’s Trump’s shineboy DeSAntis in Florida, going to do now?
https://www.politico.com/states/florida/story/2020/06/11/florida-ordered-1-million-doses-of-a-trump-touted-drug-hospit
Just when boi Jared had cornered the market
so unfair ©
But we’ll always have bleach…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPDPzbLFeP4Anyone have stats on hydroxychloroquine related deaths in he states? Is it a couple hundred or thousand that Trump caused here?