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White House releases doctor’s note on Trump’s purported use of hydroxychloroquine

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President Trump’s announcement Monday that he has been taking hydroxycholorquine as a prophylactic to ward off the COVID-19 coronavirus had its skeptics, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.). “Maybe he’s really not taking it because the president lies about things characteristically,” Schumer told MSNBC. So the White House released a letter from White House physician Dr. Sean Conley.

Trump “is in very good health” and has tested negative for COVID-19 in his regular testing, Conley wrote. “After numerous discussions he and I had for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks.” The letter did not actually say Conley had prescribed hydroxychlorquine to Trump or that Trump was taking it, but White House spokeswoman Alyssa Farah said Trump is taking the malaria drug.

Hydroxychloroquine has well-documented risks, including causing dangerous heart arrhythmia even in healthy people, and multiple studies have shown it has no apparent benefit for COVID-19 patients. The FDA granted emergency authorization to use hydroxycholorquine to treat hospitalized COVID-19 patients before later issuing a safely advisory on April 24 warning of serious side effects and recommending its use only under close supervision of a doctor in a hospital or clinical trial.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) expressed concern about Trump’s risk-taking on CNN. “He’s our president, and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and his, shall we say, weight group — morbidly obese, they say,” she told Anderson Cooper. (Trump, 73, is technically obese but not severely or morbidly so, The Associated Press notes.)Andrew Lawrence@ndrew_lawrence

Nancy Pelosi calls Trump “morbidly obese”

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New York‘s Olivia Nuzzi had a more practical critique.Olivia Nuzzi@Olivianuzzi

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If you are worried enough about the virus to take a drug that has not been proven or approved to prevent or treat the virus, but you are not worried enough to wear a mask and gloves, what the hell does that mean?54.9KTwitter Ads info and privacy11.4K people are talking about thisJosh Barro✔@jbarro

Well, at least the president won’t get malaria.5,986Twitter Ads info and privacy641 people are talking about this

“Here’s my evidence: I get a lot of positive calls about it,” Trump told reporters. “The only negative I’ve heard was the study where they gave it — was it the VA with, you know, people that aren’t big Trump fans gave it.”

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