Coronavirus: Will Chloroquine Save Us?

Science Vs

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🗓️ 27 March 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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President Trump says an anti-malarial drug could be a “gift from god” for treating Covid-19. Does it really work? And is it dangerous? We talk to toxicologist Professor Daniel Brooks, infectious disease specialist Dr. Matthew Pullen, and microbiologist Professor Karla Satchell. Also: VAMPIRE BATS! We’ve set up a voicemail to collect all of your questions about Coronavirus. Or if you’re a healthcare worker with a personal story you want to share, please call ‪(774) 481-1238‬ and leave us a message. Here’s a link to our transcript: https://bit.ly/2xu4ER8 This episode was produced by Meryl Horn, Wendy Zukerman, Rose Rimler, Michelle Dang, Laura Morris, Meg Driscoll and Sinduja Srinivasan. We’re edited by Blythe Terrell and Caitlin Kenney. Fact checking by Eva Dasher. Mix and sound design by Peter Leonard. Music written by Peter Leonard, Emma Munger, and Bobby Lord. Thanks to the NBC News Archives. A big thanks to all the researchers that we got in touch with for this episode, including Professor Thomas Doerner, Dr Hue, Professor David Boulware, Dr. Anne Melzer. And special thanks to the Zukerman family and Joseph Lavelle Wilson. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Wendy Zuckerman and you're listening to Science Vests from Gimlet.
0:03.6	As this COVID-19 pandemic rages on, we at Science Vests have been keeping an eye on all the
0:11.2	treatments that doctors are trying around the world.
0:14.4	About a month ago, we told you about some promising research out of China into an anti-malarial
0:19.2	drug.
0:20.2	It was pretty obscure back then.
0:27.9	But just this week, it felt like this drug had been upgraded to celebrity status.
0:33.6	Thank you very much.
0:36.6	At my direction, the federal government is working to help obtain large quantities of chloroquine.
0:43.3	Chloroquine.
0:44.3	It's the drug that's making the headlines.
0:47.1	And Trump is a big fan.
0:49.2	In one press conference this week, he said that he'd heard the story of a man who took it
0:53.8	and had a remarkable recovery.
0:56.4	A gentleman they thought he was not going to make it.
1:00.6	He said goodbye to his family.
1:02.9	They had given him the drug just a little while before, but he thought it was over.
1:06.6	His family thought he was going to die.
1:11.4	And a number of hours later, he woke up, felt good, and he woke up again, and he felt
1:16.8	really good, and he's in good shape.
1:20.1	And Trump said that this drug might be able to help lots of people.
1:24.4	There's a real chance, I mean, again, we don't know, but there's a real chance that it could
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