Salt Lake City staffers Brady McCombs, correspondent, and Lindsay Whitehurst, reporter, used AP feeds from across the country to report exclusively that millions of doses of hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug touted by President Trump, were flowing from private companies and the federal stockpile to states and cities, despite warnings from doctors that the drug was unproven for treatment of COVID-19. https://bit.ly/2zJ7fYP
Exclusive: States, cities stockpiling unproven hydroxychloroquine
Hydroxychloroquine pills are shown in Las Vegas, April 6, 2020.. AP reports that at least 13 states have obtained a total of more than 10 million doses of malaria drugs to treat COVID-19 patients despite warnings from doctors that more tests are needed before the medications promoted by President Trump are used to treat people with the coronavirus.
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