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WASHINGTON, April 6 — White House trade adviser Peter Navarro today acknowledged that members of the task force dealing with the coronavirus outbreak clashed over the weekend about the efficacy of a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, for use against the disease. Navarro had a heated clash on...

Dr Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, during a daily briefing at the White House in Washington March 25, 2020. — Reuters pic

Navarro has been appointed by Trump to oversee the administration’s implementation of the Defense Production Act to help produce scarce medical supplies. While acknowledging he has no scientific background, Navarro said he believed the hydroxychloroquine studies done so far were convincing. Trump has made his opinion on the drug well known and personally pressed federal health officials to make them available to treat coronavirus, two sources have told Reuters.

At Saturday’s meeting of the task force, Navarro told CNN, “there was unanimous agreement that FEMA would immediately begin surging hydroxy into the hot zones to be dispensed only between a doctor and a patient decision not the federal government.” He said there were 29 million tablets of hydroxychloroquine sitting in a warehouse.

 

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