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Tens of millions of doses of drugs that President Donald Trump touted as game changers in the fight against the coronavirus are now in limbo after the Food and Drug Administration stripped them of their emergency use authorization this week.

The drugs hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate were deemed too risky and likely ineffective to treat COVID-19.

The FDAs decision Monday, which one Trump official denounced as a partisan attack, follows a mad dash by states and hospitals to purchase chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine after health care providers were given a green light to use the drug in March through the emergency use authorization. The drugs were otherwise not approved to treat COVID-19.

What do we have to lose? Trump asked in a March 21 news briefing that endorsed the drugs.

Based on continued review of scientific data, FDA has determined that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating #COVID19 and therefore we are revoking the emergency use authorization for these drugs: https://t.co/k9kJMeci0a pic.twitter.com/W2aItvFcBU

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Based on continued review of scientific data, FDA has determined that chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are unlikely to be effective in treating #COVID19 and therefore we are revoking the emergency use authorization for these drugs: https://t.co/k9kJMeci0a pic.twitter.com/W2aItvFcBU
FDA Drug Information (@FDA_Drug_Info) June 15, 2020

Manufactures by mid-March announced that they had ramped up production of the drugs globally to meet anticipated demand. But now its unclear what will be done with the excess supply.

The federal stockpile has 66 million doses of the drugs, according to The New York Times. This includes 3 million tablets of Resochin, Bayers chloroquine phosphate drug, which the company donated but is not approved for use in the U.S.

Bayers donation was intended to be used as the government deems appropriate, a Bayer representative told HuffPost in an email.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is working with the companies that donated the hydroxychloroquine sulfate and chloroquine phosphate to determine the available options for the products that remain, Stephanie M. Bialek, chief of the Strategic National Stockpiles Communication Services Section, told HuffPost Wednesday.

Similar responses were made to HuffPost by public health officials for states that either purchased the drugs or received donations.

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