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Bloomberg
A 65-year-old malaria drug that hasn’t been proven to work against the new coronavirus appears to have captured the imagination of another president.
France’s Emmanuel Macron unexpectedly flew to Marseille and spent more than three hours meeting with Didier Raoult, the researcher whose work has propelled a medicine called hydroxychloroquine from fringe to famous in just three weeks.
Raoult’s unconventional studies won over US President Donald Trump, who suggested he’d be willing to take the medicine himself.