White House Hypes Chloroquine, A Drug Currently In Shortage, As Coronavirus Treatment Hope

Efficacy trials are under way and one supplier already has said it would restart production to meet the anticipated demand.

White House Announcement
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn explains agency plans to test the anti-malarial chloroquine as a potential treatment for coronavirus during a White House briefing on 19 March 2020. • Source: screenshot

The White House and US Food and Drug Administration are ramping up research on an old anti-malarial drug, currently in short supply and carrying a potentially concerning safety profile, as a possible treatment for coronavirus.

President Trump directed the FDA to consider hydroxychloroquine sulfate, which is marketed by Bayer AG as Plaquenil, along with...

Pink Sheet Podcast

Learn what's happening at the US FDA. On the go.

Derrick Gingery and the team bring you a weekly "Drug Fix".

More from Manufacturing

More from Compliance