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Trump Takes Malaria Drug As Corona Prophylaxis - "It Will Kill You"

2020-05-19T09:31:59.063Z


US President Donald Trump takes a malaria drug for coronavirus prophylaxis. Now Trump-loyal broadcaster Fox-News warns of the president's recommendation: "It will kill you".


US President Donald Trump takes a malaria drug for coronavirus prophylaxis. Now Trump-loyal broadcaster Fox-News warns of the president's recommendation: "It will kill you".

  • US President Donald Trump * is taking the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine as a prophylaxis against coronavirus infection. 
  • The effect of the drug against Covid 19 disease has not yet been scientifically proven.  
  • Now the otherwise so Trump-loyal broadcaster Fox-News urges the drug: "It will kill you".
  • Here you will find the basic facts about the corona virus * and the corona news from Germany. We also offer you the current number of cases in Germany * on a map. The following recommendations for corona protective measures are currently available.

Washington - US President Donald Trump * has already drawn attention to the coronavirus pandemic several times with dubious medical tips. Now even Trump-loyal broadcaster Fox News is urgently warning of a drug that the US President is taking, according to some information about coronavirus prophylaxis. 

He's been taking hydroxychloroquine for about a week and a half , Trump said in the White House on Monday. He had heard “very good things” about the long-approved malaria preparation, said the US President *. Journalists asked about scientific knowledge about the preparation and its prophylaxis benefits regarding the coronavirus. Trump answered that he had received many calls . Many doctors and nurses also take hydroxychloroquine as a precaution. His prophylaxis tactic against a coronavirus infection was agreed with the White House doctor. 

Corona virus in the US: Trump recommends controversial malaria drug - "God's gift"

Trump had already promoted the malaria preparation as a therapy against coronavirus infection in the past few months . The drug was a "gift from God," he enthused at the time. At the end of April, however, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) warned of the alleged miracle cure: There is no reliable evidence of effectiveness against Covid-19 * , but the drug increases the risk of life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias , it said. Previously, a study had found higher mortality in patients when taking the drug in combination with an antibiotic.

Now the otherwise so faithful Trump-News broadcaster warns against the drug in connection with the coronavirus * . People with respiratory or heart disease were treated with hydroxychloroquine in American hospitals after suffering from Covid-19. Several studies concluded that there were no significant differences in the treatment of Covid-19 patients in hospitals from those who were treated with or without the drug.

Corona virus in the US: Trump's Corona recommendation meets with criticism - "It will kill you"

A study by the US Department of Veterans' Affairs would now have shown that especially high-risk patients died after such treatment . "If you are taking this medicine as protection against the virus or are even struggling with the virus and you are in this risk group, it will kill you. I can't stress it enough: it will kill you, ”said the Fox News journalist. This risk shouldn't be taken lightly just "because the President of the United States says it's ok." The journalist emphasizes: "I'm not saying this to reach a political point - but a point that is about life and death."

Fox News on hydroxychloroquine in the last two days:

Neil Cavuto: It'll kill you !!!

Laura Ingraham: Take it! Take it! Take it!

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- The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) May 18, 2020

The German virologist Christian Drosten * also warned of the "miracle cure" hydroxychloroquine. It does not help in the fight against the new corona virus. On the contrary, one study even found that the mortality rate for patients treated with the drug was significantly higher than for treatment without this drug.

nai with dpa

* Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.

Rubric list picture: © AFP / BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI

Source: merkur

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