U.S. President Donald Trump is touting two drugs as possible COVID-19 treatments.<\/p>\n

Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said chloroquine, an old drug used to treat malaria \u201chas shown encouraging early results against the virus. We\u2019re going to be able to make that drug available immediately\u201d by prescription.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been around a long time, so if things don\u2019t go well, we know it won\u2019t kill anyone,\u201d said the president, who described chloroquine as a possible \u201cgame-changer.\u201d<\/p>\n

Remdesivir, developed as a treatment for Ebola and Marburg viral infections, also is to be reviewed by the Food and Drug Administration for COVID-19 treatment, Trump said.<\/p>\n

The FDA commissioner, Dr Stephen Hahn, however, stated that the two drugs would have to undergo large clinical trials before they could be generally prescribed to treat COVID-19. <\/p>\n

Hahn also mentioned the potential of \u201cconvalescent plasma,\u201d calling it \u201ca pretty exciting area.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve been exposed to coronavirus and you\u2019re better, you don\u2019t have the virus in your blood. We could collect the blood,\u201d Hahn said, cautioning that this is a \u201cpossible\u201d but not \u201cproven treatment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. President Donald Trump is touting two drugs as possible COVID-19 treatments. Speaking to reporters at the White House on Thursday, Trump said chloroquine, an old drug used to treat malaria \u201chas shown encouraging early results against the virus. We\u2019re going to be able to make that drug available immediately\u201d by prescription. \u201cIt\u2019s been around […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bongoswaggz.co.tz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}