Despite FDA Warnings, Trump Says He’s Been Taking Hydroxychloroquine For Weeks | Deadline | MSNBC

President Donald Trump on Monday said he has been taking hydroxychloroquine, an unproven and controversial treatment for COVID-19 that he has vigorously promoted, for weeks. The FDA has warned against taking the drug outside of hospital settings. Aired on 05/18/2020.
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Despite FDA Warnings, Trump Says He's Been Taking Hydroxychloroquine For Weeks | Deadline | MSNBC

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    1. I think the American people would pick up the tab to have a full time lie detector by his side

    2. Tomorrow he says i meant Hydroxy-Clorox-Clean not HydroxyChloroquine..evidently his orangy face is lighter in tone..lol

    1. @Marc You don’t need to try to convince the others that it looks like it is effective. Just take it yourself. You are your own responsible to your live, not to the others. Vice versa.

    2. If he said it it is a lie. He has this “pathological liar” thing, he couldn’t tell the truth if he wanted to. He is pathetic but you get the government you deserve. Snake oil and all.

  1. And there you have it folks!!!! *HE’S FRYING WHAT LITTLE BRAIN CELLS HE HAS LEFT 🤦🏿‍♀️*

  2. There is a lot of drugs I’d like to be taking. My doctor has vetoed all of them, cause he’s a real doctor.

    1. @Tristan G When somebody becomes a sycophant, all their old titles are rendered meaningless.

    1. @DeepDeepBlue He said he took it. Do not believe until you see him down it with a glass of disinfectant on camera.

    2. I had to use it when I worked in The Sudan. Canadian troops that were charged with manslaughter of a Somali kid used the mental deleterious effects of this very drug to mitigate their crime. I know exactly what they meant. It has an effect on your mental condition. The Canadian court marshal agreed and their sentences were reduced. Google Canadian Airborne and you will see exactly what I am saying. I can’t imagine what sort of effect it has on Trump. He’s already crazy.

  3. So many are gonna listen to this statement and start taking and overdosing…Here comes Round 2 flooded calls to poison control 🤭

    1. @Tyler Micha From the FDA warning on the box. “Common adverse reactions include cardiovascular, dermatological, immunological, neurological and ophthalmological (see Adverse Reactions section).” These are just the, yes, please note the first word, COMMON adverse reactions.

      So why take it? Untreated, malaria kills. Even with these drugs, it kills 405,000 a year. So if the treatment hypothetically killed 200,000 (if you treated every malaria patients to with it) then the drug makes sense, though they usually like a mite bit less lethality. Chloroquine shows promise, and combined with zinc in the right form, has shown efficacy against coronavirus RNA Polymerase. In vitro, i.e. in the lab. They are still working on in vivo, as in living subjects vs. test tubes (as in drug TRIALS). From these trials you get the numbers to balance lethal side effects to a COVID-19 reduced death rate. It may turn out to be a good drug for Granny Jones, skinny old lady who plays the organ at Church and who has asthma. Grandpa Jones, big beefy ex-trucker, who’s had one heart attack and a pacemaker, not so much.

      Chloroquine is well tolerated, that DOES NOT mean it’s sugar pills. Zinc can be toxic, highly so in the vapor form. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2796768/&ved=2ahUKEwjgmfzz2r7pAhWOZs0KHVGPCXcQFjAAegQIBhAB&usg=AOvVaw1opDv0hnWG32UBuzsMqUQa

      If Donald Trump gives advice on branding, and I don’t think he has a vested interest in the answer, I’ll listen because he does it well (it was critical in him becoming President). For drugs and disease organisms, I’ll go with Dr. Fauci thank you very much.

    2. @Marc If you’d bother to read the WHOLE article: “Meanwhile, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday found that treating patients only with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both did not reduce hospital deaths.”

    3. Waggish Sagacity unfortunately my response would be, so be it. While I don’t want anyone harmed by taking his poor advise, I can’t feel all that bad for them for making that decision.

      Same goes for those who actually tried to ingest disinfectants.

  4. I’m a front line worker I’m not taking even a Tylenol and sure as heck Not taking
    Hydrochloraquin

    1. Turn of the Fake News they are lying to you.. do some real research and you will see Trump is telling the truth.

    2. Tristan G in low doses. To be used against COVID19 which requires higher dosages it’s extremely dangerous. However it’s not even proven to assist against COVID19, so it’s useless

    3. & his buddies are making great very Tremendous profits from his schilling.
      VOTE BIDEN !
      LET’S MAKE AMERICA NOT A JOKE AGAIN !!!!

    4. @rebjiii Sad but True Enslavement to Billionaire Oligarcs is such a pathetic thing.
      VOTE BIDEN !
      LET’S MAKE AMERICA NOT A JOKE AGAIN !!!!

    1. 5 18 20 Hey@Marc, I read the article. This study was with people infected & not a prophylaxis. The article also said more study needed; time will tell. The drug can basically stop your heart. Stay safe, keep calm, be well. v

    2. 5 18 20 Hey Dubjax, Agree, 100%. Drump’s stupidity has no bounds. Stay safe, keep calm, & be well. v

    3. @Marc Being the article you link to states: “Meanwhile, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association on Monday found that treating patients only with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, or both did not reduce hospital deaths. ”

      How do you equate Trump as being “right”?

  5. A couple of weeks ago I had “the most embarrassing moment in my life” when my fellow Michiganders decided to act like idiots. Today tops that. Today was the most embarrassing day of my life as an American citizen.

    1. @ian preston Have you notice this study I gave you was from May 12. You are 1 step behind with your data.

    2. @greg R. Over 35 million people in USA unemployed because of this crisis, how many will lose their house, divorce, lose their business or suicide … this is why people protest.

    3. @Charles P I’m talking about the study you posted almost 1 hour ago!…. read all the page!

  6. He’s not taking it.

    He and his friends are financially locked into the drug and need it to be sold.

    Plain and Simple.

    1. @desglacons Do some research into the abortion industry. It’s genocide. Not something a civilized society should be allowed to get away with. Look at the pictures of the little broken bodies left on surgical trays – they do not even get a funeral. Sickening, and beyond evil.

    2. @Christine King Statistics compiled by Worldometers indicate that there were over 42.3 million abortions world-wide in 2019. You can’t deal with cold hard facts can you? You live in a world where all these DEATHS are somehow justifiable. Sick logic.

    1. The Alternative fact world said it’s doing great things !
      VOTE BIDEN !
      LET’S MAKE AMERICA NOT A JOKE AGAIN !!!!
      Do we really have to think about this????

    1. Tristan G well said, but sometimes brother, “the act or want of evil for the better good of man kind has to come into play. A single person who would want harm to other for his benefit shall pay in health”.

      T.

    2. @Tristan G You forget he’s killed 80,000 Americans and would let all of us die in order to save himself…. That is not a president, that is a republican. If he wants to commit accidental suicide that is his choice.

  7. There was a report that he or friends have invested $30 million in the company that makes hydroxychloroquine. He just wants return on his investment.

    1. And when people start getting sick and dropping dead,, he needs to finally be held accountable for something. 29 million tablets he said which is probably more like 15 million are just sitting there. He needs to sell them. Who cares if he kills people.

    1. @L’ autre Bleach & Lysol shots for all Trump Rally folks !
      VOTE BIDEN !
      LET’S MAKE AMERICA NOT A JOKE AGAIN !!!
      Unless we still haven’t seen enough ????

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