TIME TO STOP LISTENING
President Donald Trump on Saturday said the unproven drug combination he has referred to as a coronavirus treatment could be preferable to placing Americans suffering from COVID-19 on any of the 10,000 ventilators states have requested from a federal stockpile.
Trump, who has no medical training, has for several weeks mentioned a combination of an anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin as a potential cure for the virus that the World Health Organization has classified as a global pandemic.
While there are a number of ongoing clinical trials testing the efficacy of those and other medications to see if any will be effective against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, medical experts have cautioned against the use of any drug therapies that have not been proven to work in a controlled trial.
Then he suggested that leaders in states such as New York were responsible for shortages because they "had chances of stockpiling a lot of ventilators," long before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 but didn't. This, after accusing NYC of "stockpiling" ventilators.
Trump, who has no medical training, has for several weeks mentioned a combination of an anti-malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, and azithromycin as a potential cure for the virus that the World Health Organization has classified as a global pandemic.
While there are a number of ongoing clinical trials testing the efficacy of those and other medications to see if any will be effective against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, medical experts have cautioned against the use of any drug therapies that have not been proven to work in a controlled trial.
Then he suggested that leaders in states such as New York were responsible for shortages because they "had chances of stockpiling a lot of ventilators," long before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 but didn't. This, after accusing NYC of "stockpiling" ventilators.
