While addressing reporters on Thursday, March 19, 2020, Trump said, the United States of America will make the drug available immediately.

He said, “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately, and that’s where the FDA (Food and Drug Administration) has been so great,

“They’ve gone through the approval process — it’s been approved. They took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we’re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription.”

However, minutes after Trump approved the drug, Stephen Hahn, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner, debunked the claim that the drug could be used to treat the virus, saying the use of Choloroquine is still in a clinical trial to find out whether or not it works.

He said, “Again, we want to do that in a setting of a clinical trial,” 

According to Bloomberg, an FDA spokesperson said the drug had not been approved for use in Covid-19 patients.