Politico: FDA Issues Emergency Authorization of Hydroxychloroquine

Yeah, don't worry. Not linking the article but, I had to share some excerpts because it's painfully obvious there are tears on the writer's keyboard admitting the FDA is approving the immediate use of hydroxychloroquine for COVID19 use.

TLDR; this drug, which has shown to be very successful in many different countries, will now be used regularly for Coronavirus. There will be many more doses available by mid-April. God-willing we should be up and running by May 1st.

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The Food and Drug Administration on Sunday issued an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, decades-old malaria drugs championed by President Donald Trump for coronavirus treatment despite scant evidence.

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The agency allowed for the drugs to be "donated to the Strategic National Stockpile to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible," HHS said in a statement, announcing that Sandoz donated 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine to the stockpile and Bayer donated 1 million doses of chloroquine.

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Three officials told POLITICO that FDA’s planned move would facilitate more access to the drug by allowing more manufacturers to produce or donate it.

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“They indicated that we'll start working on it right away. It could take a year,” the president said. “I said what do you mean a year? We have to have it tonight.”

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Way to take charge