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Social media users have been sharing posts which claim that “hydroxychloroquine is now ok” yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the American Medical Association (AMA) told Reuters that their guidance advising against treating COVID-19 with hydroxychloroquine or urging caution reflects their current positions, as of this article’s publication.
Examples of the posts can be seen here , here and here .
Hydroxychloroquine is a medicine that is FDA-approved to treat arthritis and to treat or prevent malaria (here). Former U.S. President Trump said last March that hydroxychloroquine could be a game-changer in the coronavirus pandemic. He also said he was taking it himself, even after the FDA advised that its efficacy and safety were unproven (here).