The White House is reportedly planning to promote the use of two malaria drugs frequently touted by President Trump Donald John Trump Mnuchin, Schumer brief Trump , expect coronavirus stimulus deal Tuesday US airlines drafting plans for potential shutdown: report White House hits CNN, MSNBC for cutting away from coronavirus briefing MORE as as a potential treatment for coronavirus despite their unproven benefits, using a platform built by the tech firm Oracle.
The platform is slated to be used to collect information about off-label uses of the two drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. The FDA is still reviewing both drugs’ effectiveness as a coronavirus treatment, and top public health officials have warned against jumping to conclusions on their effects.
Health and Human Services agencies such as the FDA and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services are part of the Oracle efforts, as is the president’s son-in-law Jared Kushner Jared Corey Kushner Politics and the pandemic – Republicans are rightly worried in the Saudi- Russian oil price war, the US blinks first Coronavirus could keep Trump in the White House 
MORE , the Times reported, citing two senior administration officials, who said the platform could be used to gather data from doctors who prescribe the drugs and track symptoms in patients.
Dr. David B. Agus, a professor of medicine and engineering at the University of Southern California, is also reported to be working with the White House and Oracle, and has repeatedly promoted the use of the drugs against the virus, saying on television recently “the earlier you use them, the better. ”
Health officials within the administration have reportedly expressed dismay about Trump’s promotion of bypassing standard clinical trials for the drugs as a coronavirus remedy.
Trump, meanwhile, has grown increasingly bullish on the drugs, which numerous Fox News personalities and contributors to whom he plays close attention have promoted. Trump said last Thursday “we’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately,” while Hahn said at the same conference that it would ensure any such products were “safe and effective” first.
Meanwhile, on Monday, an Arizona man died while his wife was hospitalized at Banner Health after they both ingested chloroquine phosphate, a substance often used to clean fish tanks, and which the woman told NBC News that she took the product after seeing Trump tout its effectiveness.
“This is not going to be a magic pill for us to get us through this, ”Daniel Brooks, a medical director with the Banner Poison and Drug Information Center, said Monday.
The Hill has reached out to the White House for comment.
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