Yale epidemiologist: 'Trump drug' could save 100,000 lives
Physicians urge government to stop blocking hydroxychloroquine
President Donald J. Trump walks from the Oval Office to the South Lawn of White House to board Marine One for Joint Base Andrews Maryland Friday, June 5, 2020, to begin his trip to Bangor, Maine. (Official White House photo by Tia Dufour)
The highly politicized anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine could save up to 100,000 lives, according to a Yale epidemiologist, yet access to it continues to be restricted.
"If a drug could save 100,000 lives, then government agencies that block its use are responsible for 100,000 needless deaths," charges Dr. Jane Orient, executive director of the Association of American Physicians & Surgeons.
AAPS has filed for an injunction to force the Food and Drug Administration to stop obstructing use of the drug, she pointed out, "while it hoards and wastes the millions of doses that manufacturers donated to the Strategic National Stockpile."
Hydroxychloroquine was approved by the FDA in 1955 and has been taken safely by hundreds of millions of people, noted Orient.
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