Oklahoma had purchased 1.2 million hydroxychloroquine pills for a total of $ 2 million.
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John Locher / AP / SIPA
After ordering 1.2 million hydroxychloroquine pills last year - the equivalent of 100,000 doses - Oklahoma is now trying to get rid of it.
Information confirmed on Tuesday at the
Huffington Post
by the spokesperson for the attorney general of this southern state in the United States.
He would like to return his stock to FFF Enterprises, the private company from which it had purchased.
While several studies are now reporting the possible side effects of hydroxychloroquine and the time is for the vaccine race, not sure that Oklahoma will manage to recover all of its money.
He had ordered two million dollars worth of pills last April.
A stock in case the drug proves effective
At least 20 other states had also ordered doses of this treatment advocated in France by the media professor Raoult and praised by the former President of the United States, Donald Trump, while its effectiveness against the coronavirus has not until then day not scientifically proven.
At the time, Oklahoma defended its choice by arguing that it was better to have the drug if it was useful against the Covid-19 and that if it was not the case, that it could be used in the treatment of other pathologies, reports
Read Frontier
.
Others were quicker to cancel their hydroxychloroquine orders.
This is the case of Utah, which had put $ 800,000 (almost 660,000 euros) on the table to build up a stock before doing an about-face.
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