Friday, June 19, 2020

Trump's bad bet on hydroxychloroquine leaves U.S. sitting on millions of worthless pills

Four months after Donald Trump first began pushing the idea that his “common sense” said that hydroxychloroquine was a “game changer” in treating COVID-19, the whole waste of time, effort, and lives has come to a sorry end with the FDA pulling the emergency authorization for use of the malaria drug as a coronavirus treatment. Trump repeatedly flogged the drug in daily coronavirus task force meetings (back when Trump wasn’t dismissing the pandemic completely) with the catch phrase “What do you have to lose?” Trump even claimed that he was actually taking the drug himself, in a manner never approved by the FDA, to prevent catching COVID-19.....
https://www.dailykos.com/story/2020/6/18/1954065/-Trump-s-bad-bet-on-hydroxychloroquine-leaves-U-S-sitting-on-millions-of-worthless-pills

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