Clive Palmer ad for coronavirus 'cure' cleared by Australian drug regulator
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- Apr 29, 2020
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Australia’s drug regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has dropped its investigation into newspaper advertisements taken out by the former federal politician Clive Palmer that described a drug unproven in the treatment of Covid-19 as a “cure”.
In March, the TGA confirmed it was looking into Palmer’s two-page ad in the Australian and on Facebook that stated the drug, hydroxychloroquine, when combined with another medication could “wipe out the virus in test tubes”. The ad also quoted the leader of a clinical trial, Prof David Paterson, saying it was not a stretch to describe the drug as a cure. Drug advertising rules state any therapeutic claim made in relation to novel coronavirus must be supported by appropriate evidence and must not mislead.
