Beyond politics, gold-standard COVID-19 trials test malaria drug taken by Trump

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By Nancy Lapid

(Reuters) – In the fight against COVID-19, the decades-old anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine has become a political football, with U.S. President Donald Trump personally taking it and hailing it as a “game changer,” to the derision of critics.

Some studies already have been done on hydroxychloroquine and the closely related chloroquine,