Fauci and Trump struggle to stay on same page about possible coronavirus treatment

Published March 20, 2020 6:43pm ET



President Trump and the top government infectious disease expert were not on the same page about the promise of possible coronavirus therapies in Friday’s White House press update.

Trump said that he had high hopes for the possibility that the malaria drug chloroquine would be a viable treatment option, which he had announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration was considering as a therapy for COVID-19.

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