Ummmmm… about #2 above...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/trump-says-hes-taking-malaria-drug-in-case-he-gets-virus/ar-BB14gGDF?ocid=spartanntp
Some takeaways:
--Trump said his doctor did not recommend the drug to him, but he requested it from the White House physician. "I started taking it, because I think it’s good," Trump said. "I’ve heard a lot of good stories.”
--Two large observational studies, each involving around 1,400 patients in New York, recently found no benefit from hydroxychloroquine. Two new ones published Thursday in the medical journal BMJ reached the same conclusion.
--One, by French researchers, gave 84 hospitalized patients the drug and 97 others the usual care. There were no differences in the odds of death, need for intensive care or developing severe illness.
--The other study from China was a stricter test: 150 adults hospitalized with mild or moderate illness were randomly assigned to get hydroxychloroquine or usual care. The drug made no difference in rates of clearing the virus or time to relief of symptoms, and they brought more side effects.
I swear: every damn time I go out on a limb and praise Trump for something, the news proves me wrong in a day or two
Once conservatives find out their Orange God is taking hydroxychloroquine "just in case," there's going to be a stampede