Claure Quinn is potential therapy for people who are infected with the virus.

Is there any evidence to suggest that, as with malaria, it might be used as a prophylaxis against Kobe?

I think the answer is no.

And the evidence that you're talking about John is anecdotal evidence.

So as the commissioner of F d.

A.

And the president mentioned yesterday, we're trying to strike a balance between making something with a potential oven oven effect to the American people, available at the same time that we do it under the auspices of a protocol that would give us information to determine if it's truly safe and truly effective.

But the information that you're referring to specifically is anecdotal.

It was not done in a controlled clinical trial, so you really can't make any defendants of statement about without seeing too much.

I'm probably more of a fan of that than, uh maybe than anybody, but I'm a big fan.

We'll see what happens, and we all understand what the doctor said is 100% correct.

It's early, but we've, you know, I've seen things that air impressive will see we're gonna know.

So we're gonna know soon, including safety.

But you know, when you get that safety, this has been prescribed for many years for people to combat malaria, which was a big problem, and it's very effective.

It's a strong, strong drug.

So we'll see you again, Sergeant.

It was very it was, as I understand that.

Is that a correct statement?

It was fairly effective when stars John, you've got to be careful when you say fail the affected.

It was never done in a clinical trial.

They compared it to anything.

It was given to individuals and felt that maybe it works compared to Well, that's the point.

Whenever you do a clinical trial, you do standard of care.

Very sustained it of care.

Plus the agent you're evaluating.

That's the reason why we showed back in Ebola why particular interventions worked about possible therapies Yesterday, Mr President, you said that they were for immediate delivery immediately.

Heard.

We're ordering.

Yes, we have millions of units ordered.

Bear is one of the companies is you know, big company.

Very big, very great company.

Millions of units are ordered and we're going to see what happens.

We're going to be talking to the governors about it.

And the FDA is working on her right now.

The advantage is that it has been prescribed for a totally different problem.

But it has been described for many years, and everybody knows the levels of of the negatives and the positives.

But I will say that I am a man that comes from a very positive school when it comes to, in particular one of these drugs and we'll see how it works.

And Peter, I'm not I'm not saying it will, but I think that people may be surprised by the way that would be a game changer, but we're gonna know very soon.

But we have ordered millions of units.

It's being ordered, but from Bear.

And there is another couple of companies also that do it said there is no magic drug for Corona virus right now.

Which you would agree, I guess on this issue, way only, is this really sorry?

Uh, maybe.

And maybe not.

Maybe there is.

Maybe there isn't.

We have to see we're gonna know is impossible.

Is it possible that your impulse to put a positive spin on things, maybe giving Americans a false sense of.

I don't think there's any apparent this right now.

I don't think so.

I think that, uh, I think it's got not get a pretty strong guy.

Such a lovely question.

Look, it may work and it may not work.

And I agree with the doctor.

What he said may work.

May network the I feel good about it, that's all It is just a feeling, you know, smart guy.

I feel good about it and looking to see you're gonna see soon enough.

And we have certainly some very big samples of people, have you Look at the people have a lot of people that are in big trouble.

And this is not a drug that obviously I think I can speak for a lot of from a lot of experience because it's been out there for over 20 years.

So it's not a drug that you have a huge amount of danger with.

It's not like a brand new drug that's been just created that may have an unbelievable monumental effect like kill you.

We're gonna know very soon, and I can tell you the FDA is working very hard to get it out right now in terms of malaria.

If you want it, you can have a prescription, you get a prescription.

And by the way, and it's very effective, it works.

I have a feeling you may, and I'm not being overly optimistic, oppressive?

Pessimistic.

I sure as hell think we ought to give it a try.

I mean, there's been some interesting things happened and some good, very good things.

Let's see what happens.

We have nothing to lose.

You know the expression.

What the hell do you have to lose?

Okay, so what do you think?

They're more additional?

Follow up John's death.

Americans were scared, though.

I guess nearly 200 dead.

14,000 yours sick millions.

As you witness who are scared right now, what you say to Americans were watching you right now you are scared.

I say that you're a terrible reporter.

That's what I say.

It worked.

I think it's a very nasty question, and I think it's a very bad signal that you're putting out to the American people.

The American people are looking for answers, and they're looking for hope, and you're doing sensationalism.

And the same with NBC and con cast I don't I don't know what Comcast cycle Comcast.

Let me just who do you work?

Let me just say something that's really bad reported and you want to get back to reporting instead of sensationalism.

Let's see if it works, it might, and it might not.

I happen to feel good about it, but who knows?

I've been right a lot.

Let's see what happens.

John.

Back to science and the logistics area, shaming three units that were ordered.

Are they for clinical trials?

Are they for distribution to the General Patient Way are going to a CZ?

I understand it.

We are going to be taking samples in New York.

Governor Cuomo very much is interested in this drug, and they are going to work on it also, after they get a certain approval, we're waiting for one final approval from the FDA.

We'll see what happens, but we'll use it on people that are not doing great or even at the beginning of not feeling well fallen under.

Then John.

What do we have to lose?

So this is the way John it's been out there for so long.

We hear good things.

Let's see.

Maybe it works out.

Maybe it doesn't just get the application, so that would be under sort of a modified compassionate access.

We're doing that, I guess.

And that's that's what it's called you.

Yes.

You don't want to follow up from what the president is saying.

Should Americans have hope in this drug right now?

And, sir, I would like to follow up on Peter's question here.

Could you please issue, uh, address Americans in this country who are scared right now?

This is a very balanced conservative.

People have.

No, there really isn't that much of a difference in many respects with what we're saying, the president feels optimistic about something.

His feeling about what I'm saying is that it might it might be effective.

I'm not saying that it isn't.

It might be effective, but as a scientist, as we're getting it out there, we need to do it in a way, as while we are making it available for people who might want the hope that it might work.

You're also collecting data that will ultimately show that it is truly effective and safe under the conditions of covert 19.

So there really isn't different is just a question of how one feels about it, believe it's not safe.

Well, certainly as a drug, any drug, John has some toxicities.

The decades of experience that we have with this drug indicate that the toxicities are rare, and they are in many respects, reversible.

What we don't know is when you put it in the context of another disease, whether it's safe fundamentally, I think it probably is going to be safe.

But I like to prove things for so it really is a question of not a lot of difference.

It's the hope that will work versus proving that it will work, so I don't see big differences here.