Trump Reveals He Is Taking Hydroxychloroquine To Prevent COVID-19 Symptoms

44
Last Updated: 11:26pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday that he is taking a malaria drug to lessen symptoms should he get the new coronavirus, even though the drug is unproven for fighting COVID-19.

Join our WhatsApp group

Subscribe to our Daily Roundup Email


Trump told reporters he has been taking the drug, hydroxychloroquine, and a zinc supplement daily “for about a week and a half now.” Trump spent weeks pushing the drug as a potential cure for COVID-19 against the cautionary advice of many of his administration’s top medical professionals. The drug has the potential to cause significant side effects in some patients and has not been shown to combat the new coronavirus.

Trump said his doctor did not recommend the drug to him, but he requested it from the White House physician.

The president said he started taking it several weeks ago, and is doing so based on the positive reports about the effects of the drug.

Trump repeatedly has pushed the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine with or without the antibiotic azithromycin, but no large, rigorous studies have found them safe or effective for preventing or treating COVID-19. They can cause heart rhythm problems and other side effects. The Food and Drug Administration has warned against the drug combo and said hydroxychloroquine should only be used for coronavirus in formal studies.

Two large observational studies, each involving around 1,400 patients in New York, recently found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine. Two new ones published Thursday in the medical journal BMJ reached the same conclusion.

Soon after the President’s announcement, Fox’s Neil Cavuto issued a strong warning to his audience about taking the drug without proper medical guidance.

“If you are in a risky population here, and you are taking this as a preventative treatment […] it will kill you,” Cavuto said. “I cannot stress this enough. This will kill you.”

However, following that strong warning, Cavuto spoke to a doctor who said that Hydroxychloroquine may in fact have life-saving potential.


Listen to the VINnews podcast on:

iTunes | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Podbean | Amazon

Follow VINnews for Breaking News Updates


Connect with VINnews

Join our WhatsApp group


44 Comments
Most Voted
Newest Oldest
Inline Feedbacks
View all comments
achassidisheryid
achassidisheryid
3 years ago

Does he wash it down with bleach or Lysol?
Inquiring minds want to know.

Maven
Maven
3 years ago

I am no big Trump fan but kudos to the president for not giving in to the corrupt media.

The media hates the Hydroxychloroquine for the only reason that it might help and the virus will be over and done with and they love the virus in order for the economy to go bankrupt.

If the medication helps go for it. And every medication has side effects to certain people.

I would not be surprised that our esteemed governor king Cuomo is taking Hydroxychloroquine.

Yankel liebershnitzel
Yankel liebershnitzel
3 years ago

Many many people have been taking this as a prevention, some people just have thier head in the sand

Moishe
Moishe
3 years ago

The Dr. who prescribed it should lose his license

Jay Orchard
Jay Orchard
3 years ago

Sure: He’ll take hydroxychloroquine but he won’t wear a mask.

Just calling it as I see it
Just calling it as I see it
3 years ago

I didn’t know Dr Cavuto was a medical doctor.

I was wondering where this story came from because originally, I didn’t see the byline. Then I went and looked for it and found that it was really apDNC so the FakeNews and misinformation it contained didn’t surprise me.

ANON21
ANON21
3 years ago

More fake news by this doctor. Why would this drug kill you?? Doesn’t even make sense. It may not work against corona so corona will kill but this dug doesn’t kill. If it did it wouldn’t be out there. So cmon stop the garbage already

Dr. Bimbles Jr.
Dr. Bimbles Jr.
3 years ago

Of course he should use it.
Doctors across our country are prescribing it and it works for people before hospitalizations.
This is a fact. No cultish slavery to science, lab rats, and jackass Bright will change that.
Throw the clown faucheee in there too.

Frumsanity
Frumsanity
3 years ago

If Dr Zelenko is telling the truth he’s touting a 99 percent success rate qhen taken within the first 5 days before it ravages the body. I have 2 family members that were helped dramatically within 36 hours of taking this drug

DRS. LOZANO & ZELENKO... THEY'RE TRYING TO DESTROY THEM
DRS. LOZANO & ZELENKO... THEY'RE TRYING TO DESTROY THEM
3 years ago

Drs. Ivette Lozano fro Dallas and Zelenko from NY are being slandered by community activists, Pharma and corrupt media, but they’re not being cowed.
Their hydroxy treatments are saving lives.
Amazing how many cultists to science refuse to even take a look at another possibility.
These are the fascist believers in Climate Change by humans and nobody is allowed to question their science.
This is mob of the same freak face. Trump haters, globalists, socialists and a variety and sundry of selfish bums.

Phineas
Phineas
3 years ago

I just don’t believe he is taking it. I want to see his doctor confirm it.

Villiamsboig Bridge
Villiamsboig Bridge
3 years ago

Every MD is against it due to fatal side effects. Even Fox News and Dr. Savage are against it.

yawohl.!! Ya !!
yawohl.!! Ya !!
3 years ago

Dr. Savage is off his rocker. RINO Ryan skunk is now in charge of Fox.
Suddenly you like Savage?

FAUXCI SEZZZZ
FAUXCI SEZZZZ
3 years ago

Hopefully you’re not looking to fauxci doc.He’s a Chinese Huan connexxtion.Or this HalfBright loser.

Horse ( hoarse) Cavuto
Horse ( hoarse) Cavuto
3 years ago

Hoarse throat Cavuto is a Trump hater.
That’s all you need to know.
A greasy slimeball.

Rabbi A. Blau
Rabbi A. Blau
3 years ago

Please do not take Tylenol anymore.

Did you read all the side effects?

The politicians of the past blew it because Diplomatic Fakery was not part of the Advanced Educational system. Now that a political career requires a degree in Diplomatic Fakery, The new generation of scientists and medical professionals are also honing their skills in learning and practicing the art of Diplomatic Fakery.

Of course after a degree in Diplomatic Fakery, they all Know the future and the past 200 million years.
The only part of the puzzle still missing is knowing the present.

Horse ( hoarse) Cavuto
Horse ( hoarse) Cavuto
3 years ago

Phineas, my friend.
We Trump supporters are sharp and sense vibes.We’ re in a war with a merciless cowardly enemy.
He’s already trashed Trump before.
He talks like it , wiggless like it, and smells like it.
He’s it.

anonymous
anonymous
3 years ago

Hydroxy costs $2. Now you know the rest of the story.
Please check out Dr. Losano’s short video on Youtube and how she forcefully advocates for hydroxy

anonymous
anonymous
3 years ago

$20. Correction.

Dr. Bimbles Jr.
Dr. Bimbles Jr.
3 years ago

If Cavuto were principled, he would interview doctors with opposing viewpoints. He obviously refuses to do so.
It’s not university physics. Pretty logical actually.

anonoymous37
anonoymous37
3 years ago

Dr Zelenko is saying 99% rate that it helps within the first FIVE days of getting the virus. So once you are sick his regimen does NOT work. This is still amazing that if taken right away that it can help. The two studies that were done were on very sick patients.

Watching Dr Gupta on CNN he did say that using Hydro…. early on is still being studied. He did say it was a bad idea for Trump to take it but again he said early on it’ still being looked into.

If Dr Zelenko is correct why can’t they create videos of patients where it helped. Also just the fact that ONLY his patients did very well can’t the local health dept somehow verify this info. I would think that in a place like KJ where the population is like Willi, BP,segments of Monsey where the virus killed MANY people and then HIS patients all survived except ONE? Why is this not being done. This is NOT he said she said. There should be independent verifiable data to backup his claims.

Is the media so deep into making the DR to be an idiot that there is no hope for this possible medication to be used on people? At this point if it turns out the medicine works many people will look stupid and for once it won’t be trump.

I just hope that if somehow the medicine does work for certain people that the experts will admit they were wrong.