The president, who is not a doctor, recommends a potentially dangerous drug combo to his 74 million Twitter followers. 'What do we have to lose?' he asked.
Hydroxychloroquine, sold under the brand name Plaquenil, and the antibiotic Azithromycin in combination have shown some early promise against COVID-19. But the drugs together have not been approved as safe or effective against the disease by the federal Food and Drug Administration. Any use must take into consideration a potentially deadly side effect.? I feel very good about it.
”of the National Institutes of Health was asked if he had “any sense” of the drug cocktail the president referred to, and whether Trump’s “74-and-a-half million Twitter followers should be taking medical advice from him or from someone else.”” — informally observed individual cases — about the drugs, but they haven’t yet been proven to work, or be safe. “If you really want to definitively know if something works, you got to do the kind of trial that [gives you] the good information,” he said.
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