States Try Curbing Malaria-Drug Hoarding Amid Unproven Coronavirus Benefit

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States across the U.S. are taking steps to prevent hoarding of decades-old antimalarial drugs for treatment of the new coronavirus, an effort to preserve supplies for other patients who rely on the medicines to remedy ailments such as lupus and arthritis.

At least 20 states late last month began implementing emergency restrictions or guidelines to ease pressure on the supply of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for the autoimmune patients. Some states are limiting prescription sizes or asking pharmacists to make sure a patient tested positive for the coronavirus.

Supplies of the drugs were already running low in March, pharmacists say, when interest in the drugs’ coronavirus-fighting potential rose and U.S. doctors began prescribing them for coronavirus patients.

Then pharmacies received a flurry of calls from doctors, including dentists, plastic surgeons and veterinarians, requesting prescriptions for themselves, their staff and families, according to pharmacists and state officials.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/states-try-curbing-malaria-drug-hoarding-amid-unproven-coronavirus-benefit/ar-BB12bPLN?li=BBnbcA1

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1. If no one at the federal level can get trump to shut up about Hydroxychloroquine,

good for governors for stepping up. They're going to have to, or more people than the poor couple who drank aquarium cleaner are going to get hurt. Unnecessary shortages aren't fair to lupus and RA patients either.

I'm surprised by the number of doctors not showing more sense. With access to professional publications and peer groups with more useful data than the tangerine toddler, you'd think they would know better.