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Trump Again Touts Discredited Anti-Malaria Drug as Coronavirus Cure

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - U.S. President Donald Trump again touted the use of an
   anti-malarial drug as a treatment for the coronavirus Wednesday, even
   as the country's top infectious disease expert debunked it as a cure
   for the illness.

   "I happen to believe in hydroxychloroquine," Trump told reporters at
   the White House. "I used it. Many, many people agree with me."

   The country's Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, recently withdrew
   an order allowing the drug's use as an emergency treatment for
   COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus. Trump says he used it two
   months ago.

   Dr. Anthony Fauci, the long-time director of the country's National
   Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told ABC's Good Morning
   America television show on Tuesday, "I'll go along with the FDA.

   "The overwhelming prevailing clinical trials that have looked at the
   efficacy of hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it is not effective
   in coronavirus disease," Fauci said.

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