There is a huge debate in the White House about the effectiveness of a drug that is originally used to treat malaria, with the aim of using it to combat the Corona virus, but the administration of President Donald Trump is not waiting for a clear decision about its effectiveness, as two federal institutions have submitted requests to purchase this drug.
The Veterans Affairs Department and the Prison Office have purchased the drug called "Hydroxychloroquine" since March 26, according to federal purchase records.
And the Veterans Affairs Administration purchased a quantity of this drug at $ 40,000 from the Maxon Pharmaceutical Company and another $ 168,000 from Medical Golden Supply in Colorado. Federal procurement records indicated that the two bills were purchased urgently to combat the Corona outbreak.
But the request to purchase the property for $ 60,000 from Premium RX National came on March 31, amid an escalation of the Corona virus outbreak in the correctional facilities supervised by the prison office, and days before President Trump announced that he was accumulating millions of real estate pills. Hydroxychloroquine "to the point that he called the drug" Trump's drug "because he defended it so strongly.
Neither the Veterans Administration nor prison offices have answered the purchase questions, and whether these drugs will soon be used to treat the Corona virus.
Taxpayer funds were used to purchase hydroxychloroquine by the two federal institutions, despite the heated debate between policy makers and medical professionals about the drug's effectiveness in treating the Corona virus, and the potential for sudden demand for the drug to decrease its amounts for those who use it to treat diseases such as malaria, And rheumatoid arthritis.
This dispute erupted in a meeting behind closed doors in the White House last Saturday, where economic adviser at the White House, Peter Navarro, collided with the director of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Dr. Anthony Fushi about the effectiveness of the drug as a treatment for the Corona virus.
For his part, Trump has been promoting this drug as a panacea for the Corona virus, in an effort to control the virus, although there is no scientific evidence of its effectiveness to fight Corona, but his supporters considered the voices opposing him shy at best and hostile at worst.
The US Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization last week allowing distributors of "hydroxychloroquine" and other similar experimental drugs to distribute to the public from government drug supply warehouses.
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There is a huge debate in the White House about the effectiveness of a drug that is originally used to treat malaria, with the aim of using it to combat the Corona virus, but the administration of President Donald Trump is not waiting for a clear decision about its effectiveness, as two federal institutions have submitted requests to purchase this drug.
Source: emara