Coronavirus
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Trump Urges Coronavirus Patients to Take Unproven Drug
What do you have to lose?
President Donald Trump said on Saturday that the federal government was placing millions of doses of a malaria drug in the federal stockpile of emergency medical supplies to make it available for coronavirus patients, even though the drug has not been approved for COVID-19 treatment and his top coronavirus advisers have warned that more study is needed to determine its safety and efficacy.
Though advisers, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, have cautioned many times that more data is needed on the drug, hydroxychloroquine, Trump, in a White House briefing, went so far as to urge patients to take it.
“What do you have to lose? Take it,” the president said. “I really think they should take it. But it’s their choice. And it’s their doctor’s choice or the doctors in the hospital. But hydroxychloroquine. Try it, if you’d like.”
- Wonder how much stock he has in said drug companies.shapesalad
- This wouldn’t result in a stock surge. Derp.monospaced
- Also, no known adult investor isn’t already invested smartly in pharma and biotech. That’s a fact.monospaced
- The chloroquine he is talking about is proven by dozens to be effective, even though it was not tested through the standard procedure.gonzalle
- You can't throw away a chance to cure just because trump believes in it.gonzalle
- Moreover it is cheap, millions of people uses it everyday, and it is sort of "open source"...gonzalle
- @gonzalle, proven? No. Anecdotal, absolutely. How about the people who have died as a direct result of taking it?monospaced
- I'm not a doctor neither are you. This drug is used for years and we know the side effects. For the moment it's the only drug that's said to have some resultsgonzalle
- And, abouts the "deads", if you'r talking about this guy.... Sorry but nobody is immune to stupidity... shorturl.at/KLNU0gonzalle