Most of it it fake news but it definetly helps the manufacturers that conviniently jacked up the price for only 98% on January 23 .
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'The drug, chloroquine, hasn’t yet been approved for treatment of Covid-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus.
While it’s been available for decades for malaria, it’s not clear whether it will work against the new illness.
A March 10 review of existing research found that there’s little solid proof one way or the other.
“Normally the FDA would take a long time to approve something like that, and it’s -- it was approved very, very quickly and it’s now approved by prescription,” Trump said.
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An FDA spokesperson said the drug had not been approved for use in Covid-19 patients. However, U.S. doctors are legally able to prescribe a drug for any illness or condition they think is medically appropriate.
January 23rd pharma jacked up the price for these same drugs some
98% to 7,66$ for 250g and 19,88$ for 500mg dose you can bet in anticipation of the payday that would roll their way a month or two later.
Gregory Poland is a professor of medicine and infectious diseases at the Mayo Clinic. He's the director of the Mayo Clinic's Vaccine research group.
"I would urge us to take these with a grain of salt," he tells Inverse regarding the hype around chloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19. "Until randomized clinical trials are published we can't tell if it's anecdote. Is it due to some unforeseen or improbable set of circumstances?"
"The medical literature is littered with tens of thousands of case reports like this where there is a claim of efficacy only to fall apart when randomized clinical trials are done."
The 'anecdote' is beiing pedled by a lawyer
Gregory Rigano that is busy runing his mouth at Fox News about chloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment.
