The effectiveness of this drug against malaria, notoriously acclaimed in France by Didier Raoult, remains to be demonstrated. Also a strong supporter of the first hour, Donald Trump revealed Monday that he takes hydroxychloroquine every day.
"I have been taking it for a week and a half [...] I hear a lot of extraordinarily positive things" about this drug, argued the American president to general surprise during an exchange with the journalists.
"You know the expression: what do you have to lose?" he added. I take one tablet a day. At some point, I will stop. "
"It won't hurt me"
Health authorities in Canada and the United States warned in late April against the use outside of supervised clinical trials of this antimalarial to prevent infection or treat the new coronavirus.
"It won't hurt me," said Trump. It has been used for 40 years for malaria […] Many doctors take it, ”he said.
The White House tenant also said he had "no symptoms" of the Covid-19. He said he was tested very regularly and all of his tests so far had been negative.
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Hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have been used for years to treat malaria, certain autoimmune diseases, such as lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis.
According to a study published ten days ago in the New England Journal of Medicine, administration of hydroxychloroquine did not significantly improve or deteriorate the condition of critically ill patients with coronavirus.
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Funded by the American Institutes of Health (NIH), the observational study was conducted on Covid-19 patients admitted to the emergency departments of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center.