anyone Wonder if trump and some of his friends have stock in this drug? The way they’re pumping it makes me wonder if they’re pulling a Burr/Loeffer and trying to profit off this disease. There’s definitely precedent for this sort of thing...
I believe it's obvious why Trump is promoting its usage. And I'm interested in his motive, beyond the fact that some doctors and hospitals are using it as a desperate last effort. He is promoting it as a gamble that it will make him a hero, and help his reelection. That is the only reason he is doing this, IMO. "If this works, I am the hero".
And it's no wonder Dr. Fauci was not permitted by Trump to give his opinion at Sunday's briefing. Sounds like we got a mad scientist on our hands, and it ain't Fauci. Maybe this is the Dr. Frankenstein phase of the mad king's administration. Caligula's reincarnation perhaps:
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/us/politics/trump-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus.html
Dr. Megan L. Ranney, an emergency physician at Brown University in Rhode Island, said in an interview on Sunday night that she had never seen an elected official advertise a miracle cure the way Mr. Trump has.
“There are side effects to hydroxychloroquine,” Dr. Ranney said. “It causes psychiatric symptoms, cardiac problems and a host of other bad side effects.”
Dr. Ranney said that the drug could be effective for some patients, but that there was not nearly enough scientific evidence to support Mr. Trump’s claims.
“There may be a role for it for some people,” she said, “but to tell Americans ‘you don’t have anything to lose,’ that’s not true. People certainly have something to lose by taking it indiscriminately.”