{"id":321,"date":"2020-04-03T11:49:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T15:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/?p=321"},"modified":"2020-08-31T17:04:02","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T21:04:02","slug":"fda-approved-anti-malaria-drugs-for-covid-19-treatment-fall-within-liability-shield-of-the-prep-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/03\/fda-approved-anti-malaria-drugs-for-covid-19-treatment-fall-within-liability-shield-of-the-prep-act\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA-Approved Anti-Malaria Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment Fall Within Liability Shield of the PREP Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (\u201cFDA\u201d) gave emergency approval this week to two (2) anti-malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, to be used for treatment of COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 Despite the limited studies as to the benefits of these drugs and the well-known risks of these drugs, the FDA took the position that, under the current circumstances, the potential benefits and effectiveness outweigh the risks.\u00a0 While the FDA is conducting a trial as to the effectiveness of these drugs, millions of doses have already been shipped to hospitals nationwide for administration in an attempt to slow the spread of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>To read the full text of this post by Duane Morris attorney <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duanemorris.com\/attorneys\/brittanycwakim.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brittany Wakim<\/a>, please <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/productsliability\/tag\/liability-shield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">visit the <em>Duane Morris Products Liability Blog<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Food and Drug Administration (\u201cFDA\u201d) gave emergency approval this week to two (2) anti-malaria drugs, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, to be used for treatment of COVID-19 patients.\u00a0 Despite the limited studies as to the benefits of these drugs and the well-known risks of these drugs, the FDA took the position that, under the current circumstances, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/2020\/04\/03\/fda-approved-anti-malaria-drugs-for-covid-19-treatment-fall-within-liability-shield-of-the-prep-act\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;FDA-Approved Anti-Malaria Drugs for COVID-19 Treatment Fall Within Liability Shield of the PREP Act&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[414,416,413,46,415,531,418,957,461],"ppma_author":[1043],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-anti-malarial-drugs","tag-chloroquine","tag-covid-19-treatment","tag-fda","tag-hydroxychoroquine","tag-liability","tag-liability-shield","tag-life-sciences-and-medical-technologies","tag-treatment"],"authors":[{"term_id":1043,"user_id":6,"is_guest":0,"slug":"duanemorris3","display_name":"Duane Morris","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/843ff6e7a8fe5fc92109b47a45f34b6cf0ea499e6e788db23456c838b0ae6747?s=96&d=blank&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/coronaviruscovid19\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}