Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine - his doctor did not recommend the drug to him. Trump says he's taking malaria drug in case he gets virus https://www.wral.com/coronavirus/trump-says-hes-taking-malaria-drug-in-case-he-gets-virus/19103666/ President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to lessen symptoms should he get the new coronavirus, even though the drug is unproven for fighting COVID-19. Trump told reporters he has been taking the drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a zinc supplement daily “for about a week and a half now.” Trump spent weeks pushing the drug as a potential cure for COVID-19 against the cautionary advice of many of his administration's top medical professionals. The drug has the potential to cause significant side effects in some patients and has not been shown to combat the new coronavirus. Trump said his doctor did not recommend the drug to him, but he requested it from the White House physician. "I started taking it, because I think it’s good," Trump said. "I’ve heard a lot of good stories.” The Food and Drug Administration warned health professionals last month that the drug should not be used outside of hospital or research settings, due to sometimes fatal side effects. Regulators issued the alert after receiving reports of heart-rhythm problems, including deaths, from poison control centers and other health providers. Trump dismissed reports of side effects, saying, “All I can tell you is, so far I seem to be OK.” Trump has repeatedly pushed the use of the drug with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, but no large, rigorous studies have found them safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19. Two large observational studies, each involving around 1,400 patients in New York, recently found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine. Two new ones published Thursday in the medical journal BMJ reached the same conclusion. One, by French researchers, gave 84 hospitalized patients the drug and 97 others the usual care. There were no differences in the odds of death, need for intensive care or developing severe illness. The other study from China was a stricter test: 150 adults hospitalized with mild or moderate illness were randomly assigned to get hydroxychloroquine or usual care. The drug made no difference in rates of clearing the virus or time to relief of symptoms, and they brought more side effects. In April, the National Institutes of Health launched a study testing hydroxychloroquine versus a placebo drug in 500 hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Last week, NIH announced another study to see if hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin can prevent hospitalization or death in people with mild to moderate illness. About 2,000 U.S. adults with confirmed coronavirus infections and symptoms such as fever, cough or shortness of breath will get the drugs or placebo pills.
Distracting from the Barr /Durham news imo.Foxs #1 story last week was Obamagate,I haven't seen 1 mention today
His doctors control the pills he received, his probably have MM on them. This is all about getting people to take a pill they don't need in order to make them credit him for their wellbeing. Trump copies, that is what he does, from Barron Hilton, Roy Cohen, Hitler's greatest rise to power hits and now evangelicals and the miricle mineral bleach man. Literally last night cousin of my cousin's wife was touting MMS as a cure for coronavirus and she knew someone who it cured of malaria in two days. Of course she did not know, but had heard and on it went.. But the stupid bitch and her husband (mostly him) are worth in the order of 50 million. Mind you its Florida gas stations and malls.. I still can't figure out how the dozy bint got into this idiocy, she is very Catholic.
>Abstract > >**Background:** No consensus or evidence-based guideline currently exists for pharmacological therapy against Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID 19). While South Korea has been relatively successful in managing the pandemic, its management of confirmed cases and treatment outcomes have not been reported to date. > >**Methods:** A retrospective cohort study of the 358 laboratory-confirmed SARS CoV 2 or COVID 19 patients was conducted. Of these patients, 270 adult patients met inclusion criteria and were included in our analyses. The primary endpoints were time to viral clearance and clinical improvement. The mean duration to viral clearance and clinical improvements were displayed as bar-plots to visualize treatment responses. > >**Results:** Ninety-seven moderate COVID 19 patients were managed with hydroxychloroquine (HQ) plus antibiotics (n = 22), lopinavir/ritonavir (Lop/R) plus antibiotics (n = 35), or conservative treatment (n = 40). > >Time to viral clearance, as signified by negative conversion on PCR, after initiation of treatment was significantly shorter with HQ plus antibiotics compared to Lop/R plus antibiotics (hazard ratio \[HR\], 0.49; 95% confidence interval \[95% CI\], 0.28 to 0.87) or conservative treatments (HR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.25 to 0.78). > >Hospital stay duration after treatment was also shortest for patients treated with HQ plus antibiotics compared to other treatment groups. Subgroup analysis revealed that mean duration to viral clearance was significantly reduced with adjunctive use of antibiotics compared to monotherapy (HR 0.81, 95% CI, 0.70 to 0.93). While both HQ and Lop/R showed side effects including nausea, vomiting, and elevation of liver transaminases, none were serious. > >**Conclusion:** This first report on pharmacological management of COVID 19 from South Korea revealed that HQ with antibiotics was associated with better clinical outcomes in terms of viral clearance, hospital stay, and cough symptom resolution compared to Lop/R with antibiotics or conservative treatment. > >The effect of Lop/R with antibiotics was not superior to conservative management. The adjunct use of the antibiotics may provide additional benefit in COVID 19 management but warrants further evaluation. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20094193v1
He told directly reporters today he is taking hydroxychloroquine. Do you believe he is lying? If he is lying about this then does he lie about other stuff?
You need help understanding why Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine. With so many people near him in the White House testing positive for COVID-19 he is scared of getting the virus.