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The Latest: WHO official says malaria drug won't stop deaths

| June 18, 2020 3:27 AM

LONDON — The World Health Organization’s top scientist says it’s now been definitively proven that the cheap malaria drug hydroxychloroquine — the drug favoured by President Donald Trump — doesn’t work in stopping deaths among people hospitalized with the new coronavirus.

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