Some health officials see Trump’s promotion of hydroxychloroquine as an effort to make up time lost early in the coronavirus outbreak.
Top health officials are increasingly unsettled by President Donald Trump’s continued championing of an unproven drug in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, even as some of the president’s political and policy advisers and outside allies cheer him on.
A growing number of senior Trump appointees have moved toward viewing hydroxychloroquine, a pill typically used to treat malaria and lupus, as a potential salve for the Covid-19 outbreak — adding it to the national stockpile, urging manufacturers to ramp up its production and sending huge shipments of the drug to hospitals and pharmacies in hot zones like New York City where doctors are free to prescribe it to patients…
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