Hydroxychloroquine expert fact-checks Trump's claims about drug as coronavirus treatment

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There are many topics that Donald Trump returns to in his daily coronavirus task force briefings — ventilator stockpiles, hospital ships, governors who are flattening the curve — but few have been as vigorously endorsed as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.

On Monday, Trump announced that his administration had ordered 29 million doses of the drug as a treatment option for the more than 387,000 Americans who have tested positive for the virus. His plan stems from a March 20 study out of the U.K., which found positive effects among COVID-19 patients who took a combination of hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin.

Although the study garnered international attention, many have since criticized the small sample size (26 people) and the fact that it was non-controlled (the patients were all at different hospitals).

In the absence of more evidence, however, Trump has continued to tout the anti-malaria drug, saying in a briefing over the weekend that he “may take it,” and that it’s both “powerful” and “profound.” In a Tuesday press conference, he cited a Democratic lawmaker in Michigan who believes the drug saved her life — and thanked Trump for pushing to make it available.

While the president’s confidence about the drug may be comforting, experts continue to urge caution when discussing its potential — among them, Anthony Fauci, MD, director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. “I think we’ve got to be careful that we don’t make that majestic leap to assume that this is a knockout drug,” Fauci said Friday on Fox News. “We still need to do the kinds of studies that definitively prove whether any intervention ... is truly safe and effective.”

As the drug enters clinical trials in the U.S., many experts are speaking out about the need for more testing before conclusions are drawn. Christopher Plowe, PhD, a professor of global health at Duke University and a world-renowned expert on malaria drugs (including hydroxychloroquine), is one of them. Here, he helps fact-check some of the president’s recent declarations.

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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/trump-comments-on-hydroxychloroquine-as-treatment-for-coronavirus-fact-checked-by-malaria-expert-003056251.html

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1. Good Article.

What times these are. So much effort, fact checking and correction has to be done with Trump's blow hole emissions.

To simplify that, why not just cut right to the root of it:

Fact Check: Everything that Resident, (and Dictator in Chief) Trump says is either self-serving, misleading, manipulative, delusional, distorted or completely false. Pay no attention to him at all.

It's just that simple. Gosh, it's like there is some shortage of people who actually KNOW what the heck they are even talking about. When did we lose them?