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Utah buys malaria drugs touted by Trump, panned by doctors

by Associated Press
| April 22, 2020 12:03 AM

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah will buy 200,000 treatments of malaria drugs widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus despite warnings from doctors that the medications shouldn’t be used until more testing is done, state officials said Tuesday.

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