Well, that didn't take long.
CNN host John Berman had hoped to talk about the – reading now from the lower third on the screen –"HEATED DISAGREEMENT IN WH SITUATION ROOM OVER UNPROVEN DRUG"!
QUICK, AN ARGUMENT! SOMEONE DO SOMETHING! TRUMP WILL KILL US ALL! ORANGE MAN BAD!
Instead what he got from Trade Representative Peter Navarro, who's on the Trump administration's coronavirus task force, was an education.
As Real Clear Politics helpfully transcribed, Berman was trying to talk up the reported argument Navarro had with Dr. Anthony Fauci over trying the FDA approved malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine on coronavirus patients. Fauci says it's as yet unproven, due to a dearth of clinical trials in using it on COVID-19 patients.
President Trump has taken heat for wanting to try using hydroxychloroquine to help some coronavirus patients under doctors' care. It has been shown to be helpful, saving lives even, in some studies and most certainly anecdotally. While the old saying is, "anecdotal evidence is only evidence of anecdotes," eventually enough anecdotes become what you might call data.
The media have been absolutely rabid in their attempt to talk down the usefulness of using the already FDA approved and generic malaria drug and ignoring actual studies and anecdotes of people, such as this Michigan Democratic lawmaker, who have been saved by using it.
