He’s just a carny barker, a snake oil salesman. Listen to doctors, not liars.
Trump's embrace of injecting disinfectants shouldn't distract from his almost-40-day campaign to promote a drug that's now the focus of a formal FDA warning. Here's what he said about hydroxychloroquine, day by day. https://t.co/Vp9ycYDltT
— Philip Bump (@pbump) April 24, 2020
How false hope spread about hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19 — and the consequences that followed https://t.co/SyBvd3tHSG
— Glenn Kessler (@GlennKesslerWP) May 5, 2020
And now thishttps://t.co/JlJHyXvBZo https://t.co/ANCj74DmaY
— Sam Stein (@samstein) April 21, 2020
Fox News heavily promoted the use of this drug — nearly 300 times in a two week period https://t.co/nK7HFnXGzw
— Lis Power (@LisPower1) April 21, 2020
You can find a comprehensive guide of how Fox News hyped this drug and brought it to Trump’s attention here: https://t.co/nBc7oT0BqW https://t.co/xJfmSTAPre
After recklessly, repeatedly promoting hydroxycholoroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 based on his hunch and fed by a right wing meme, @realDonaldTrump suddenly has dropped it from his daily riffs.
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) April 21, 2020
Maybe this is why.
New VA study: more deaths; no benefit.https://t.co/LS87Ju9NJT
Via the @AP: A malaria drug widely touted by President Trump for treating the coronavirus showed no benefit in a large analysis of its use in U.S. veterans hospitals. There were more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care. https://t.co/D2PR3ekSLP
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 21, 2020
Hydroxychloroquine, long touted by President Trump, is of no use treating Covid-19 and actually causes more deaths than standard care, per a large new study. https://t.co/eCpEH9DGS0
— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) April 21, 2020
This was a key moment.@JDiamond1 asked the lead scientist on the WH coronavirus task force, Dr. Fauci, to weigh in on the president repeatedly telling people to take hydroxychloroquine for coronavirus & Trump lashed out at Jeremy & said Dr. Fauci doesn't have to answer that Q. https://t.co/Q9smR8OGfn
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 6, 2020
President Trump and his allies in conservative media have subtly scaled down their hyping of hydroxychloroquine as a potential cure for the coronavirus over the past week, according to a POLITICO review of White House briefings and cable news coverage https://t.co/rzm3HKgL0c
— POLITICO (@politico) April 20, 2020
A New York woman with coronavirus symptoms died earlier this month after being prescribed drugs President Trump has promoted to treat the coronavirus, despite warnings from major medical organizations about potential cardiac effects. (1/8) #NBCNewsThreadshttps://t.co/ATQFilX3iP
— NBC News (@NBCNews) April 20, 2020
A Texas doctor used his GOP connections to get hydroxychloroquine to administer to dozens of elderly patients diagnosed with COVID-19 in what he calls an "observational study."
— NPR (@NPR) April 11, 2020
In some cases, he didn't discuss with families before prescribing the drug.https://t.co/w5ay1UYE7v
Mayo Clinic cardiologist: 'Inexcusable' to ignore hydroxychloroquine side effects https://t.co/9Ht9p8ktct via @nbcnews
— Heidi Przybyla (@HeidiNBC) April 7, 2020
Trump reportedly has a “small financial interest” in the drugmaker of an anti-malarial drug that he has been touting as a “game changer” in treating coronavirus https://t.co/RgiTlkNO7Z
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 7, 2020
#KamalaHarris is right, "We don't want a drug pusher for president." More studies are refuting Trump's unscientific claims about hydroxychloroquine treating #COVID19. Instead of using sick vets & nursing home patients as guinea pigs, let's find a real curepic.twitter.com/aghHg9S9Kj https://t.co/WkowIOH2SE
— BlackWomenViews (@blackwomenviews) April 21, 2020
Coronavirus patients taking hydroxychloroquine, a treatment touted by President Trump, were no less likely to need mechanical ventilation and had higher deaths rates compared to those who did not take the drug, according to a new study https://t.co/8m0P9mhLEj
— CNN (@CNN) April 21, 2020
One recent hydroxychloroquine study yielded no benefit for coronavirus patients, and was in fact, more deadly.
— CNN Newsroom (@CNNnewsroom) April 21, 2020
"Much higher death rates," reports @elizcohencnn. "Actually more than twice the death rate. And this was a lot of patients. This is a very large trial." pic.twitter.com/U7F2XvsYj0
Sad! 