Trump plans to bypass legitimate medical research by hyping yet another magic website

Trump plans to bypass legitimate medical research by hyping yet another magic website
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The Trump obsession with chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine is being driven in part by television doctors like David Agus, Marc Siegel, and Mehmet Oz, so you know it must be a great thing. The plan appears to be to entirely bypass the process of randomized studies to find out if the drugs actually work on COVID-19 and instead go with scattershot self-reporting by doctors—a process that threatens to leave out bad results rather than rigorously following every time the drugs are administered.

Trump has already pressured the FDA to promote the drugs, and FDA officials have had to work to keep Trump from overhyping the possible treatment too much, including publicly walking back Trump’s misleading statements.

Often you’ll hear that hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin work together well—but the study that claim comes from had only 26 people in it, just six of whom took the azithromycin. Out of the original 26, some had no symptoms to begin with, three dropped out of the study when they went to intensive care, one dropped out due to nausea, and one died. And this is the magic bullet Trump has been promoting.

Now we’ve got Trump’s desperation, Jared Kushner’s drive to privatize public health, and Oracle’s self-promotion combining to create a shoddy, careless mockery of a clinical trial. The good news is, at least some of the people involved have such bad track records for actually getting things done that it’s unlikely to materialize at the scale being promoted.

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