U.S. President Donald Trump has been pushing for the use of an anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine against the coronavirus, and one prominent doctor says that could be a problem given the lack of data available.
“It’s just not likely to be a silver bullet,” Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, who served as special advisor for health policy to the director of the White House Office of Management and Budget during the Obama administration, told Yahoo Finance’s The Ticker. “We all want a silver bullet, but … rather than being overly optimistic and talk about the good feelings that we have, we need to rely on data. Because if we just go with our feelings, we’re likely to be severely disappointed.
On the one hand, Trump asked: “What do you have to lose?” On the other hand, the president added: “But what do I know? I’m not a doctor. But I do have common sense.” Story continuesDoctors weigh in on hydroxychloroquineDr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and a key advsior amid the coronavirus pandemic, has repeatedly downplayed hydroxychloroquine’s potential use to treat COVID-19.
“We’ve got to take a little risk, goddamnit, if we want to save lives,” Giuliani, who cited the French study to President Trump during discussions of using hydroxychloroquine amid the pandemic, told The Washington Post. “We are looking at a slaughter.” Other prominent doctors argued, contradicting the president, that people may indeed have something to lose by taking the drug without proper medical oversight.
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