4 April 2020 - President Trump pushed health health officials to make anti-malaria drugs available to treat the coronavirus although they were untested to treat COVID-19, two sources told Reuters.

The president told top officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Food and Drug Administration and the National Institutes of Health to place focus on the drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine as potential treatments, the two sources said.

After pressure from the president, the federal government issued guidance saying doctors had the option to prescribe these drugs, while citing unattributed anecdotes instead of the usual peer-reviewed science.

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