Trump says he’d take hydroxychloroquine again, which is even more dangerous than it sounds

[Chris Smith]

• President Trump said he would take hydroxychloroquine again "if he thought he was exposed" to the novel coronavirus, even after extensive testing has proven that the anti-malaria drug isn't as effective in treating COVID-19 as initially believed.
• The drug can have serious side-effects, and there's no proof it can prevent infection either.
• Separately, a study looking at hydroxychloroquine prescriptions during a 10-week period found a significant increase in orders compared to 2019, especially after Trump endorsed hydroxychloroquine on TV in mid-March.

Of all the experimental drugs used in COVID-19 therapies, hydroxychloroquine is the most controversial, and that's because of a single man. President Trump has been advocating for the use of hydroxychloroquine to treat the novel coronavirus from the moment the first studies suggested the drug might work. He dialed down his excitement as results from bigger studies came in highlighting the severe cardiac side-effects of the anti-malarial medication in COVID-19 patients. Trump then revived it by making a surprising remark on TV.

Trump said he had been taking hydroxychloroquine, and then subsequently announced his regimen would stop. Since then, we've seen the results of an extensive study that looked at nearly 100,000 COVID-19 patients, concluding that hydroxychloroquine is more likely to lead to severe health issues than offer any benefits for coronavirus patients. The World Health Organization (WHO) stopped hydroxychloroquine studies earlier this week, and France and other EU countries followed their lead. You might think that would be the end of the story, but you'd be wrong. Trump said he would still take the drug if he caught the virus, even though there's no proof it works, and that's even more dangerous than it sounds.

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