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Almost immediately after the briefing started, the president lashed out at the news media, saying it is critical that certain media outlets stop spreading certain false rumors and creating fear and panic with the public.
The U.S. will stockpile large quantities of an anti-malarial drug, the president says, though proof it can treat coronavirus is scant.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/world/coronavirus-live-news-updates.html?action=click&pgtype=Article&state=default&module=styln-coronavirus-world&variant=show®ion=MID_MAIN_CONTENT&context=storyline_updates_world#link-25808099
President Trump appeared to suggest on Saturday that the federal government was placing large amounts of the anti-malarial drug hydroxycholoroquine in its Strategic National Stockpile, speaking optimistically about its potential to treat coronavirus patients and saying he would consider taking it himself if needed.
But only anecdotal reports and one small clinical trial have shown any benefits, and the F.D.A. has not approved the drug for coronavirus treatments. Also, a spike in interest in the drug the president has helped fan has left patients who rely on it to treat chronic diseases wondering whether they will be able to fill their prescriptions.
Were going to be distributing it through the Strategic National Stockpile, Mr. Trump said at a White House news conference, adding, we have millions and millions of doses of it.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services received 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate last month from Sandoz, a division of Novartis, a pharmaceutical company based in Switzerland, for use in clinical trials and potentially treating coronavirus patients.
Previous reports from China and France that hydroxychloroquine seemed to help patients, along with enthusiastic comments from Mr. Trump, have created a buzz around the drug and the closely related chloroquine, which have been used for decades to treat autoimmune diseases like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The subsequent surge in demand has led to hoarding and shortages. .......................
malaise
(269,049 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)malaise
(269,049 posts)FBaggins
(26,748 posts)Nothing Ive seen speculated so far passes the smell test as even remotely plausible.
FBaggins
(26,748 posts)I'd guess that he loses ten times that much at each hotel for each day of the quarantine.
duforsure
(11,885 posts)From this drug being used?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)msongs
(67,413 posts)Afromania
(2,769 posts)Geeeze
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)and then he will take 100% credit.
he wants to be seen as this prescient messiah who knows more than experts and scientists, because why respect them? he knows best.
gristy
(10,667 posts)and it won't be the last one.
SlogginThroughIt
(1,977 posts)Almost like he knows something, or thinks he knows something about this. Must stop the conspiracy thoughts.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)right?
sigh
Journeyman
(15,036 posts)My wife has RA and needs hydroxychloroquine to keep her inflammation in check. Without it, her day to day existence will become a misery, and she'll be left more susceptible for a range of infections, including cover-19. It's the same with those who battle lupus.
I would hate to think that, in a misguided effort to save one medically challenged person, we consign countless others to untold levels of suffering and place their lives at risk.