The White House continued on Thursday to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine against the advice of the FDA and in the face of studies that have shown it can be harmful in some cases
WASHINGTON — The White House continued on Thursday to promote the use of hydroxychloroquine, the antimalarial drug that President Trump and some of his supporters have held out as a treatment for the coronavirus, against the advice of the Food and Drug Administration and in the face of studies that have shown it can be harmful in some cases.
The divide between medical experts and the president’s lay advisers and media supporters seems all but certain to persist, even as COVID-19 is showing signs of slowing nationally . But he may have decided to take the drug as he begins to leave the White House and travel more frequently. A study published in the Lancet last month said hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine, showed promise in the area of coronavirus prophylaxis.
Far from issuing a blanket endorsement of the drug, Saey writes that there is “not enough data to say whether the drug can protect people from catching COVID-19 or from getting very ill if they do get infected with the virus.” She notes that hydroxychloroquine has antiviral properties but could also cause “dangerous side effects,” particularly in people with heart conditions.
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