Should have his license revoked if what Trump says is true (could just be something to get a rise outta us!).
Prescribing a drug for no good reason except by the request of the patient who is 73 years old and has a bit of a heart issue despite the reports of side effects.
How bizarre. He joins the ranks of other crazies like the anti-vax crowd. Make up your own science.
Sure sends a confusing message about what the public should do/believe. CDC is recommending against use of the drug because of the possible side effects, but I-1's attitude is "so what can it hurt?".
If he was going to take it anyway, he should have kept quiet about it.
But he's just continuing what he's been doing during this whole pandemic....sowing confusion....
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Originally posted by Mary Anna: For all we know, they're giving him sugar pills to keep him pacified.
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Originally posted by Piano*Dad: He can never be wrong. He simply doubles, triples quadruples down.
Maybe you're both right. He knows he's taking sugar pills and that they won't affect him.
"Look!!! I've been taking hydroxychloroquine and I've had no problems!!! I was right!!!"
I wouldn't put it past him. He made remarks about how he knew everyone's eyes would bug out when he made the announcement....
It would be funny if he weren't the guy with the nuclear codes....
edit: The WH doctor is confirming that Trump is taking the drug and that the decision was made after talking about the benefits and risks, and that the final decision was that the benefits outweighed the risks. He's taking it prophylactically; there are *no* studies that demonstrate any efficacy when used in that manner.
Dr wtg says a mask is very effective and pretty much has no down side.
'Nuff said.
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As former Trump adviser Steve Bannon once told Michael Lewis, “The real opposition is the media. And the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with ****.” By filling the airwaves and the press with discussions of hydroxychloroquine, Trump has filled the commode to the point of overflowing. I’d like to think that calling attention to Trump’s decoy move might reduce its effectiveness. But I’d be wrong. In Trump’s book, any mention—neutral, praiseful or critical—is a win because it takes our eye off of what really matters. When it comes to obvious Trump provocations like self-dosing of hydroxychloroquine, the only way to blunt such media manipulation is to ignore him as much as possible. Do your part. Flush Trump’s crap from public mention.
On the heels of studies showing hydroxychloroquine doesn't help patients in the hospital with Covid-19, a new study -- the first of its kind -- shows the drug doesn't work to prevent infection with the virus, either.
President Trump said he took hydroxychloroquine last month, shortly after he found out that his personal valet had been diagnosed with the coronavirus.
The University of Minnesota study has been covered in the media over the past few months, and Dr. David Boulware, the author of the new study, says the president's physician sent him an email on May 9, seeking his opinion about taking the drug preventatively, and asking about the results of the study and the dose the study subjects were taking.
Boulware says he advised Trump's physician that there was no published research showing hydroxychloroquine worked preventatively and shared that the people in his study who took hydroxychloroquine had higher rates of side effects, mostly gastrointestinal problems such as nausea and vomiting.
"I knew they were probably going to ignore what I said because the White House had been talking about hydroxychloroquine for weeks and weeks and weeks," said Boulware, an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota.
The study was published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.
