So now Trump announced that he will stop taking hydroxychloroquine in two days... Fmr Bush WH Medical Advisor Slams Trump for Announcing He’ll Soon Stop Taking Hydroxychloroquine: ‘What an Unnecessary Distraction’ https://www.mediaite.com/tv/fmr-bus...ychloroquine-what-an-unnecessary-distraction/ A former White House medical advisor under the Bush administration slammed President Donald Trump for announcing that he would stop taking hydroxychloroquine in two days, just two days after he set off a firestorm of controversy by announcing he had been taking the unproven drug to prevent contracting the coronavirus. Speaking with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Dr. Jonathan Reiner bemoaned the massive public uproar triggered by Trump’s decision to tell his personal physician that he wanted to begin an off-label usage of hyrdoxychloroquine after possible exposure in the White House. “Does it make sense to take this drug for that period of time?” Burnett asked, of Trump announcing that he would soon be completing a two-week regimen that he began in early May. “Obviously, you know, we know there’s no proof that it does what he says it does. It is being studied to see whether it’s preventive, although it doesn’t work in terms of treatment. But does this period of time make sense to you or do you read anything into that?” “Boy, what an unnecessary distraction this whole hydroxychloroquine thing has become,” a clearly frustrated Reiner said. “Look, there are three potential settings that you could take this drug. You can take it if you’re really sick with the virus. And there’s a growing established amount of data that shows pretty convincingly that it doesn’t work there. You can take it after you’ve been exposed to the virus, what we call post-exposure prophylaxis, which is apparently how the president has taken it. And again there’s no data although we’re promised data soon. And finally, you can take it pre-exposure, you know, all the time, and there’s zero data to point in that direction.” “So either the president knows something that we don’t know and if he does, then let’s hear it. Or more likely, the rest of us in medicine know more than he does and we really need to stop this nonsense,” Reiner said. “It really makes no sense for him to have taken it for two weeks. This was trialed at the University of Minnesota and at Columbia [University] in a five-day regimen. So, I don’t know why he’s been on it for much longer than that.” “What does this mean that, he was obviously he’s been obsessed with this drug, but able to get his medical team on board?” Burnett followed up. “I think it’s impossible for him to admit that he’s wrong about something,” Reiner said, matter-of-factly. “So he’s going to take the drug just to prove everyone wrong. And, you know, the fact that he’s still alive after taking the drug doesn’t mean it was the right thing to do.”
Wisconsin Woman Who Took Hydroxychloroquine for Nearly 2 Decades Contracts Coronavirus: 'How Can I Be Sick?' https://www.newsweek.com/wisconsin-...cades-contracts-coronavirus-how-can-i-1505575 A Wisconsin woman was reportedly surprised to learn of her COVID-19 diagnosis after taking hydroxychloroquine for nearly two decades, the same drug President Donald Trump recently said he is taking to ward off the virus. Kim, who asked to be identified by her first name only, has been taking hydroxychloroquine as a lupus treatment for 19 years, according ABC affiliate WISN. The drug has long been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to treat lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and malaria. It has not been approved to treat or prevent COVID-19. "When they gave the diagnosis, I felt like it was a death sentence. I was like, 'I'm going to die,'" Kim told the outlet. "I'm like, 'How can I be sick? How? I'm on the hydroxychloroquine.' They were like, 'Well, nobody ever said that was the cure or that was going to keep you safe' and it definitely did not." Kim said she had believed she would not contract the virus because Trump touted the drug as effective, even though most medical experts urged caution. Despite only leaving her house to go to the grocery store, she started to experience troubling symptoms in mid-April. "Weak all over. Coughing, fever. The fever was very high," she said. "It just went downhill from there. I couldn't breathe no more." (More at above url)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/heal...ne-coronavirus-study/?itid=lk_inline_manual_8 Antimalarial drug touted by President Trump is linked to increased risk of death in coronavirus patients, study says An analysis of 96,000 patients shows those treated with hydroxychloroquine were also more likely to suffer irregular heart rhythms
It shouldn't be surprising that Trump is wrong about pretty much everything. Which is why the people here who are pretty much wrong about everything support him so vehemently.
I found the original article from the posting above in a medical magazine. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31180-6/fulltext It is an extensive article so here is one of the important conclusions: 96 032 patients (mean age 53·8 years, 46·3% women) with COVID-19 were hospitalised during the study period and met the inclusion criteria. Of these, 14 888 patients were in the treatment groups (1868 received chloroquine, 3783 received chloroquine with a macrolide, 3016 received hydroxychloroquine, and 6221 received hydroxychloroquine with a macrolide) and 81 144 patients were in the control group. 10 698 (11·1%) patients died in hospital. After controlling for multiple confounding factors (age, sex, race or ethnicity, body-mass index, underlying cardiovascular disease and its risk factors, diabetes, underlying lung disease, smoking, immunosuppressed condition, and baseline disease severity), when compared with mortality in the control group (9·3%), hydroxychloroquine (18·0%; hazard ratio 1·335, 95% CI 1·223–1·457), hydroxychloroquine with a macrolide (23·8%; 1·447, 1·368–1·531), chloroquine (16·4%; 1·365, 1·218–1·531), and chloroquine with a macrolide (22·2%; 1·368, 1·273–1·469) were each independently associated with an increased risk of in-hospital mortality.