Even more shipments of hydroxychloroquine, a drug commonly used to treat malaria but not yet widely considered safe and effective against coronavirus, are coming to Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis announced.
The governor spent time during a news conference Tuesday focusing on the drug and questioning doctors — one of whom was video conferenced in — on how people receiving treatment for COVID-19 coronavirus are reacting to it.
While the doctors expressed caution and some doubt over it being some bullet-proof treatment, DeSantis said they’ll be able to get their hands on more of it.
One of them, pulmonary specialist Sunil Kumar at Broward Health, said hydroxychloroquine “absolutely” should be among the slate of options to help treat coronavirus patients.
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