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“It’s a dangerous message for someone without a medical license to get up there and tell people to try it. You need to listen to physicians, people who understand science, before you go willy-nilly into the medicine cabinet.”
Fauci has been reluctant to directly criticise the president, with whom he speaks regularly, but has found himself repeatedly having to contradict the president over hydroxychloroquine, which has become a hobby horse at White House briefings.
On 21 March, the day after another nationally televised Trump claim that the drug “looked promising”, Fauci was asked directly if it could be used to treat Covid-19.
“The answer is no,” he said.
Last month, a man in Arizona died after he and his wife took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean fish tanks that is also found in hydroxychloroquine.
“Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure,” the man’s wife told NBC.
According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, by Sunday lunchtime about 313,000 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the US and more than 8,500 people had died.
www.theguardian.com
Fauci has been reluctant to directly criticise the president, with whom he speaks regularly, but has found himself repeatedly having to contradict the president over hydroxychloroquine, which has become a hobby horse at White House briefings.
On 21 March, the day after another nationally televised Trump claim that the drug “looked promising”, Fauci was asked directly if it could be used to treat Covid-19.
“The answer is no,” he said.
Last month, a man in Arizona died after he and his wife took chloroquine phosphate, an additive used to clean fish tanks that is also found in hydroxychloroquine.
“Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure,” the man’s wife told NBC.
According to researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland, by Sunday lunchtime about 313,000 cases of Covid-19 had been confirmed in the US and more than 8,500 people had died.
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www.theguardian.com