A study for a coronavirus treatment involved a non-randomized group of patients .
This is in violation of federal law , since none have been determined to be safe and effective by the FDA.In early March President Trump directed the FDA to accelerate the testing and possible use of certain medications to discover if they would help treat patients who already have COVID-19. '' U.S . Moves to Expand Array of Drug Therapies Deployed Against Coronavirus '' , The Wall Street Journal , March 19 , 2020 Among potential drugs are chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine , which have been successfully used to treat malaria ; however , they have never undergone properly designed clinical trials for the treatment of the coronavirus , and the one study reporting positive results was in a small , non-randomized group of patients and was published on YouTube rather than a peer-reviewed journal .
2020 coronavirus pandemic in the United States