Flashback re: Chloroquine
President Donald Trump claimed during a White House briefing on Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the “very powerful” drug chloroquine to treat coronavirus.
Facts First: Chloroquine has not been approved by the FDA to treat the coronavirus
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/19/politics/fact-check-chloroquine-trump-fda/index.html
Chloroquine is a potent inhibitor of SARS coronavirus infection and spread
2005
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16115318/
By that evening, first-time prescriptions of the drugs — chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine — poured into retail pharmacies at more than 46 times the rate of the average weekday
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/25/us/coronavirus-trump-chloroquine-hydroxychloroquine.html
“The Malaria Project” — operating via the same covert White House machinery that drove the Manhattan Project — tasked doctors with removing malaria from naturally exposed U.S. troops then injecting those strains into people with syphilis and schizophrenia
Thousands of mental patients at eight hospitals became “pod people,” made and kept ill so scientists could use their blood in clinical drug trials. Eventually, pockets of troops, many in the South Pacific, unwittingly became guinea pigs for potential anti-malaria drugs. But certain treatments were worthless or harmful, leaving numerous service members with lasting organ damage
Nazi doctors, who had been conducting similar tests, were in possession of a promising new drug.
“In North Africa, the Allies captured this analogue. They get this magic formula, stealing it from the Germans,” Masterson said.
“It’s sent back to The Malaria Project and developed into a chloroquine,” a safe drug that, she added, “went on to save more lives than any other drug in history.”
Oct. 7, 2014
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/u-s-troops-patients-were-used-malaria-guinea-pigs-book-n220216