Trump on chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, March 19, 2020: transcript

Key points

• Chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are described as a common malaria drug also used for arthritis.
• He says that because the drug has been around a long time, it is not going to kill anybody if things don't go as planned.
• He says early results have been very encouraging and the drug will be available almost immediately.
• He praises the FDA for cutting the approval process from many months to immediate.
• He says he spoke with Governor Cuomo, who wants to be first in line.
• He says the drug will be available by prescription, with states and doctors handling it.

Chapters

1. 0:00What chloroquine is and why it is considered safe
2. 1:01Early results, FDA approval and Governor Cuomo
3. 1:56Prescription access handled by states and doctors

Full transcript

0:00Now, a drug called chloroquine, and some people would add to it hydroxychloroquine, so chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine. Now, this is a common malaria drug. It's also a drug used for strong arthritis. somebody has pretty serious arthritis also uses this in a somewhat different form but it is known as a malaria drug and it's been around for a long time and it's very powerful but the nice part is it's been around for a long so we know that if it if if things don't go as planned it's not going to kill anybody when you go with a brand new drug you don't know that

1:01that's going to happen you have to see and you have to go long tests but this has been used in different forms very powerful drug in different forms and it shown very encouraging very very encouraging early results and we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately and that's where the FDA has been so great. They, uh... They've gone through the approval process. It's been approved, and they did it. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states. I spoke with Governor Cuomo about it at great length last night, and he wants to be right on the – he wants to be first on line. And so I think that's a tremendous – there's tremendous promise.

1:56based on the results and other tests this tremendous promise and 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 individual states will handle it they can handle it doctors will handle it and I think it's going to be I think it's going to be

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