New Delhi (NVI): US President Donald Trump has said two drugs developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could help cure coronavirus, becoming the biggest game-changers in the history of medicine.
The US President has said that Hydroxychloroquine and Azithromycin– used for treating malaria and bacterial infections respectively — if taken together, can be helpful in curing coronavirus.
“HYDROXYCHLOROQUINE & AZITHROMYCIN, taken together, have a real chance to be one of the biggest game changers in the history of medicine. The FDA has moved mountains – Thank You! Hopefully they will BOTH (H works better with A, International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents)…..be put in use IMMEDIATELY. PEOPLE ARE DYING, MOVE FAST, and GOD BLESS EVERYONE!,” Trump tweeted.
However, the combination of two drugs to treat the deadly infection is still unproven and Trump’s announcement has got mixed reactions from the scientific community as well.
Earlier on Thursday, the US President in a press conference had announced that an existing drug (Hydroxychloroquine) prescribed for malaria and some forms of acute arthritis was among a range of drugs being tested for treating coronavirus and could soon be available to the public.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, a top infectious disease expert in the US and part of Trump’s team to combat COVID-19, contradicted the claims by Trump at the White House press conference, a day later. He has maintained that the drug is just part of the efforts by the team to find a cure for novel coronavirus.
Chloroquine, or hydroxychloroquine, has been approved to treat and prevent malaria since 1944. But, no drug has been approved to treat COVID-19, and a vaccine is estimated to remain at least a year away.
