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U.S. Allows Emergency Use of Drug Trump Backed Against Virus

  • WHO’s Tedros cautions against treatment with unproven drugs
  • Therapy to be used in more than 1,000 New York virus patients

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A drug President Donald Trump backed as a possible “game changer” in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic received an emergency-use designation from U.S. regulators, even as signs of risk continued to mount.