https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/28/coronavirus-live-updates-us/
Trump doubles down on video promoting drug that performed poorly for covid-19
President Trump on Tuesday defended his promotion of a viral video touting hydroxychloroquine — a drug that performed poorly in a randomized clinical trial — as a cure for covid-19, even after social media platforms removed the video because it contained misleading and false claims about the coronavirus pandemic.
Trump has repeatedly used his White House coronavirus task force briefings as a platform to advocate for the drug. The Food and Drug Administration last month revoked an emergency use authorization for the medication, saying it was “unlikely to be effective.” Taking the lectern at Tuesday’s briefing, Trump doubled down on the misinformation-filled video clips he and his son helped spread Monday on Twitter.
Asked about a woman in the video who dismissed mask-wearing and promoted hydroxychloroquine as a covid-19 cure, Trump said that she was “very impressive” in describing her experience with the drug.
“I thought her voice was an important voice, but I know nothing about her,” Trump said.
The first randomized clinical trial testing hydroxychloroquine as an early treatment for mild covid-19 found the drug was no better than a placebo in patients who were not hospitalized, and previous randomized trials have shown the drug is not effective in treating hospitalized covid-19 patients. An observational study, considered less rigorous than a randomized trial, showed a much lower death rate among hospitalized patients given the drug early, but critics said the study had several design flaws.
At Tuesday’s briefing, Trump also continued to paint a rosy picture of the coronavirus situation nationwide. Infections seem to be plateauing in the Sun Belt and rising in the Midwest as deaths rise nationwide, but Trump spoke of “improvements across the major metro areas and most hot spots.”
“You can look at large portions of our country,” he said. “It’s corona free.”
Tại làm sao mà Tổng Thống Trump double down thuốc hydroxychloroquine qua các phương tiện truyền thông và ngay cả briefing sau khi randomize trial đă chứng nhận thuốc này không có tác dụng và c̣n cấm xài ?
Large portions of our country, íts corona free
GS nghĩ những nơi đó ít người và toàn là đồng không mông quạnh th́ không cần mask v́ distance control không cần cũng như không có du khách tới mấy khu đồng không mông quạnh đó
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