Posted on 04/04/2020 7:06:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Donald Trump on Saturday doubled down on his support for a drug that is still being tested to treat the coronavirus, saying he might take the medicine himself and encouraging others with doctor approval to do the same.
At his daily press briefing, Trump also chided some states for requesting more ventilators from the federal government than he said they needed.
Trump said the next week would be particularly tough with a "lot of death" coming from the coronavirus. But he also reiterated his concern that the social distancing "cure" for the outbreak was worse than the problem.
Trump faced criticism for initially playing down the risks of the coronavirus and has vacillated between warning Americans about its severity and complaining about its economic costs.
Trump's optimistic comments on Saturday about the benefits of anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, reflected his tendency to put a positive spin on an issue even as data was still being gathered.
"I may take it," Trump said. "I'll have to ask my doctors about that, but I may take it." Trump has been tested twice for the coronavirus, according to the White House, and both times the results were negative.
The European Commission said this week that the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine treating COVID-19 had not been proven.
Trump said the federal government had 29 million doses of the drug and was adding to its national stockpile. He said he had asked Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday to lift a hold on a U.S. order of the drug as well.
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The president also said fears of shortages had prompted U.S. states to request more ventilators than they needed. He said the federal government had 10,000 in its stockpile. “Some states have more ventilators than they need, they don’t even like to admit it,” he said.
Cannot blame them for not admitting they have them. Sometimes we in flyover country get tired of covering for the cities on the coasts and then getting called all sorts of names after we help out.
We are all in this together, though.
I think he’s referring to NY where Cuomo got called out for claiming a shortage when he had a warehouse full of unused ventilators.
39 million doses, and it’s against the law to prescribe it here in Ohio. I will not vote for a Republican governor again!
RE: I will not vote for a Republican governor again!
Will a Democrat be any better?
Is that why they are using the drug for coronavirus patients in France, Italy, Spain and even Germany?
And is that why the FDA has given provisional approval for the drug to be used for coronavirus?
God, it's hard to read anything from the crazies at Al Reuters without wanting to throw up.
They'd be better off getting out of the news business and getting into the disinformation and propaganda business.
RE: I will not vote for a Republican governor again!
Will a Democrat be any better?
LOL
I wish they’d really lock down the WH a lot more than they are doing. Have Trump speak at his press conferences from behind a clear wall partition between him and the press. Put the press into a negative pressure sealed room from which they can ask their questions.
The President should not be put in such a risky situation with all those people in the press room every day, especially at his age.
Yeah. Sometimes you wonder if people post utterly foolish things by accident, or deliberately!
Now how about ALL of us take it now, as a preventative! And go right back to work.
Anyone but Mr. Magoo
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