In such desperate times, people have been trying to find means to cure the deadly coronavirus that had affected more than 1 million people worldwide and took 50,000 more lives.

After numerous attempts to mock President Donald Trump, left-winged media outlets have finally acknowledged that his suggestion to use hydroxychloroquine, a commonly used drug to treat Malaria, can be a possible cure for coronavirus. The drug was newly approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat COVID-19 patients in emergency situations.

To point this out, the New York Times had recently published an article entitled “Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study.” Based on the article, the left-winged media outlet wrote that a sample of the drug was given to a “group of moderately ill people.” Based on the report, the said medication was able to “quickly” improve the patients’ condition.

It was a stark contrast to what NYT wrote a month ago. In an article entitled, “Trump’s Embrace of Unproven Drugs to Treat Coronavirus Defies Science,” the media outlet claimed that medical professionals were worried that Trump’s endorsement of the medication would only create shortages and panic for Lupus patients who were heavily reliant on the drug.

On March 20, CNN, another left-winged media outlet, said that “Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times,” referring to his endorsement of hydroxychloroquine. In an editorial penned by Stephen Collinson, he wrote that Trump was doing more harm than good by spreading “false hope and even “premature optimism.”

It all changed when the media outlet published a column by FDA director Dr. Stepehen Hann who had explained what the FDA had been doing to combat the deadly virus. Hann even boasted that the administration “empowered” the FDA to find immediate solutions. In addition, Hann also claimed that although clinical tests are still up for the use of chloroquine, they have already allowed doctors to use the medication to treat COVID-19 patients.

Even Democrat and Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, who had once threatened doctors that would prescribe hydroxychloroquine, have now asked the administration to ship some of the medications in her state.

While chloroquine sounds promising, scientists have also explored other medications for treatment. Experts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine announced that the polio vaccine might be a potential cure for the deadly virus.

The experts’ findings, which were published on EBioMedicine, reported that when scientists used a small patch of the polio vaccine on mice, it had significantly ramped up the number of antibodies.

Based on their findings, experts believed that it could be replicated on humans to “significantly impact the spread of disease.” What made it easier for experts to find alternative solutions was that they have already done similar research on SARS and MERS.

According to Dr. Andrea Gambotto, the co-senior author of the Pitt Study, she explained that since the COVID-19 virus was on a similar strain as SARS, they were able to act quickly in finding a potential cure.