i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it. hydroxychloroquine. >> when? >> right now, yeah. couple of weeks ago started taking it. because i think it's good. i've heard a lot of good stories and if it's not good, i'll tell you right. i'm not going to get hurt by it. it's been around for 40 years for malaria and lupus and other things. >> note the viewers, donald trump is a pathological liar. i've been supplying that note to viewers on this program since 2011 when donald trump first started talking about president barack obama's birth certificate but especially worth a reminder tonight because people need to be warned when they see the president of the united states say i'm taking this drug and i think it's good, people should know that it's entirely possible that he is not taking that drug. it is entirely possible that he is claiming to take the drug as a political defense against a scientist who has lodged professional complaints about what the trump administration tried to do with that drug, that the president wants to insist is safe for everyone, every

it was about hydroxychloroquine on day one. now it's about how he tried to save the american people. all he had to do was come to work and maybe he can help out. >> laura: finally, is the fda considering rescinding its warning about hydroxychloroquine, given the new information out and the study out from nyu. obviously france, huge amount of data supporting its use and it's been used a people for decades and decades in their own lives and obviously for lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. >> i can tell you the people in the fda who are here in the building with me looking very closely at hydroxychloroquine in all the potential therapeutics to attack the coronavirus. i know they are looking at many different things and if it turns out to have efficacy, i know they will examine this and move forward with it. i'm pretty sure they're looking at this very, very closely. >> laura: all right, we appreciate it. i know nih is asking for volunteers for hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for mild to moderate cases of covid and i say about tim

i happen to be taking it. >> reporter: hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now, yeah. >> reporter: when did you begin? >> a couple of weeks ago, started taking it. >> reporter: why? >> because i've heard a lot of good stories. and if it's not good, i'll tell, i'm not going to get hurt by it. it's been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other things. i take it. front line workers take it. a lot of doctors take it. excuse me. a lot of doctors take it. i take it. >> reporter: that is the drug that the fda, wolf, recently cautioned against using outside of a hospital or a clinical setting because they raised concerns about what it can do to the rhythm of your heart. they said there is an added layer of concern if someone has heart or kidney disease yet the president dismissed those concerns. he said he's been taking it and so far says he feels fine. wolf, he repeated his line about basically what do you have to lose, something he's been saying to the american people and now he's saying it in regards to his own health. wolf, this comes as the p

as a preventive against coronavirus. >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now. yeah. a couple of weeks ago. started taking it. i've heard a lot of good stories, and if it's not good, i will tell you right, not going to get hurt by it. it's been around for 40 years. >> the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus is still in question and in some coronavirus patients, it has caused heart problems, but the president, who according to his physical results is quite healthy, and is monitored daily by the white house physician, wanted to give it a try. >> a white house doctor. didn't recommend it -- i said what do you think and he said if you'd like to take it. a lot of people are taking it, a lot of front-line workers are taking hydroxychloroquine. >> while preventers and treatments instilling study there was good news on the potential to one day put coronavirus behind us. my dear not announcing is achieved promising results with its vaccine candidates, evoking a significant immune response and that it could start the last phase of finical t

. >> reporter: now, wolf, in that fda guidance going back to hydroxychloroquine, they basically warned about the concerns about it if you already have heart disease or kidney disease. we know that sanjay gupta wrote that based on the president's last physical that he does have a common form of heart disease. so we've reached out to the white house and the white house medical office to try to get a statement from the president's physician about his use and his taking of this drug. and we've also reached out to the vice president's office to ask if he is also taking hydroxychloroquine. >> very potentially significant development, kaitlan, the president said about a week and a half ago he started taking hydroxychloroquine. he also said at least at the beginning, he was also taking azithromycin or z-pak, as it's called, at least briefly taking that in conjunction with hydroxychloroquine and also taking zinc, all for preventive purposes even though he's tested negative for the coronavirus and even though he says he has no symptoms. this came as a big surprise, right? >> reporter: yeah, you

hydroxychloroquine? the world health organization pledges an independent inquiry into the pandemic, but the us renews its criticism. the british government adds loss of smell or taste to its official list of symptoms. doctors say it should have been done weeks ago. cyclone amphan powers towards india and bangladesh — two million people are fleeing the coast. hello and welcome to audiences in the uk and around the world. latest figures from the united states show that more than 90,000 people with coronavirus have now died. that's out of a total of more than 1.5 million cases. the figures were released on the day president trump said he is taking an antimalarial drug as a precaution against the virus. mr trump, who's tested negative several times, said he'd been taking hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half. the president has repeatedly promoted the anti malaria drug as a coronavirus treatment despite his own government's warning against its use. a lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy. a lo

hydroxychloroquine? hydroxychloroquine. the world health organisation promises an independent inquiry into the pandemic, but the us renews its criticism. the british government adds loss of smell or taste to its official list of symptoms. doctors say it should have been done weeks ago. he toured with stevie wonder and prince, but now a lack of gigs means this top jazz artist is performing for his neighbours. as the death toll from the virus in the united states passes 90,000, the white house physician has now confirmed that he prescribed president trump with an antimalarial drug asa trump with an antimalarial drug as a precaution after a member of staff was confirmed to have the virus. the us food and drug administration warns against the general use of hydroxychloroquine for this purpose, and has warned of potentially dangerous side effects. mr trump, who's tested negative for the virus several times, told reporters he's been taking hydroxychloroquine for a week and a half. a lot of good things have come out about hydroxyc

if he is taking hydroxychloroquine, bless his heart. for fourhas taken it -lupusor longer for pre and arthritis and she has not had a sign, not even one little sneeze during this pandemic. if he wants to take it and his doctor says he can, take it. they are going to watch them. if there are any side effects, they will jerk him off of it. posted yesterday also thinking out the u.s. response to the world health organization's assembly and the leadership of the world health organization, saying he sent this multipage letter to the leader of the world health organization, and he says it is self-explanatory. in this letter he lays out where he sees the world health organization showing bias towards china and he concludes in the letter writing this -- "myra -- administration has started his cushions on reform and the organization, but action is needed quickly. we do not have time to waste. that is why it is my duty host: now, the hhs secretary, alex azar, attended yesterday's testimony and here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> we must be

are you taking hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm not. i would never begrudge any american taken the advice of their position. hydroxychloroquine is a drug that has been around for more than 40 years for the treatment of malaria. early in this process, the fda approved what is called off label use. physicians good prescribed hydroxychloroquine in terms that they deemed appropriate. my position has not recommended that, but i wouldn't hesitate to take the counsel of my doctor or any american should do likewise. >> you mention the world health organization. last night president trump tweeted out a letter saying that the administration is going to continue to freeze the funds that the u.s. had been providing to the world health organization unless the w.h.o. took specific actions. the president saying that they w.h.o. has made "repeated mistakes." >> neil: thank you very much. we established at least briefly kevin hassett was taking hydroxychloroquine himself and stopped taking it. stay with us. looks like they picked the wrong getaway drive

i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now, yeah. a couple weeks ago i started taking it. >> why? >> because i think it's good. i heard a lot of good stories. if it's not good, i'll tell you right -- i'm not going to get hurt by it, it's been around for 40 years for malaria, lupus and other things. frontline workers take it. a lot of doctors take it excuse me. a lot of doctors take it. i take it. >> he's right on one thing, it's been around for a long time for, guess what, malaria, for lupus. but not for coronavirus. okay? it doesn't mean that it's right for this particular illness. i want to make this absolutely clear. the president of the united states is taking a drug his own fda says should not be taken outside of hospitals and clinical trials. some anecdotal evidence that it works, maybe. but that's not absolute proof or clinical evidence. he says he's been tested negative for the coronavirus. even though a new study shows hydroxychloroquine does not work against the virus even though heart problems are a known

this is now six more than all of the other studies combined of hydroxychloroquine. and to your point earlier, elizabeth, the issue is that you picked up the tackicardia, the life-threatening arrythmia when the person is in the hospital so now we know that up to five fold when it is taken with azithromycin. you don't want this to happen outside of the hospital because there is no monitoring or way to treat it and that would be a cardiac arrest. so this is a dangerous drug. the risk of arrythmia we saw in the previous study, those were small studies. this is a very, very large study. and it's compelling new data. and that goes against the safety of hydroxychloroquine and it really questions all of the assertions that have been made previously. >> and could i -- obviously you're not the president's physician. of course that is clear. but do you think that the white house physician who prescribed this treatment course for the president should answer some questions now, if this seems to kind of shut the book on this entire notion as you're describing it. >> well, there i

we don't have even that kind of data on hydroxychloroquine. so it goes against, as we talked about yesterday, the advice of his public health officials, based on what we know. we need to know more, but based on what we know now, there was enough concern to pull back. >> and look, i understand people criticizing the study of the va patients, because as we've all talked about, it's retrospective, it's not a trial. they looked at patients. a lot of the ones who took the hydroxychloroquine, as we've all talked about, were among the sickest. it's not a peer-reviewed study. but the authors are just trying to figure out what's going on. they didn't say don't take it. they said, we need more study, that was the ultimate conclusion of the study. president trump, meanwhile, literally said, what have you got to lose. and sanjay, what do people have to lose, if you look at the warnings from the nih panel and the food and drug administration, what do people have to lose? >> well, i think with regard to using it as a treatment, i mean, i think the scenario

hahn what did he think about president trump taking hydroxychloroquine.octors are free to approve drugs for off-label uses and this was a decision between president trump and his doctor. back to you. >> all right, sara, thank you very much. >>> next joe biden is backtracking on this -- >> if you have a problem figuring out whether you're for me or trump then you ain't black. >> he was speaking to radio host charlamagne tha god who is out front next and the president's new culture war in the midst of a pandemic as he pushes to reopen houses of worship. one more bite! ♪ kraft. for the win win. when bugs move in we stress out and spray. well, we used to. new ortho home defense max indoor insect barrier kills and prevents bugs for up to a year without odors, stains or fuss. new ortho home defense max. bugs gone. stress gone. i am totally blind. and non-24 can make me show up too early... or too late. or make me feel like i'm not really "there." talk to your doctor, and call 844-234-2424. yoo-hoo, progressive shoppers. we laughed with you. sprinkles are for wi

and i want to discuss your new study on hydroxychloroquine in just a moment.get your reaction to this first. researchers just published data that shows the drug remdesivir actually shortens the course of coronavirus illness from about 15 days to 11 days. how significant, dr. mehra, is this development? >> i think it is a very important development, wolf, because this is the first real glimmer of hope that we have had. it may not be the panacea that we were hoping for, but it is certainly a glimmer of hope. everything else either doesn't seem to work or seems to harm people. >> let's talk about your study which is really really significant. as you know, the president has embraced the use of hydroxychloroquine, asking at several points, what do you have to lose? according to your new study, you could actually lose your life. what did your study specifically show about hydroxychloroquine and coronavirus patients? >> yeah. so we conducted this observational study. it is not a randomized controlled trial but it is a very large study. nearly 100,000 patients across

hydroxychloroquine and why an earth is the president taking this?ting advice and is this great role model and coming out of the white house? as to what could've been a really positive message the stock market is up because there is potentially good news about a vaccine. and stay here on bbc news and bbc world news for more on that we'll additionally have plenty more reaction 0ur reality check team has checked president hydroxychloroquine works. also at the press event, donald trump criticised the world health organisation — labelling it a ‘puppet of china'. it came after the body's annual assembly — where the us‘s health secretary was the sole voice to criticise the global health body for its response to the pandemic — accusing it of ‘failures' that have costed lives. we saw the who failed in its core mission of information sharing and transparency when member states do not act in good faith. this cannot ever happen again. the status quo is intolerable. who must change and it must become far more transparent and far more accountable. transparent and

and president trump making news, now defending his decision to take hydroxychloroquine. >>> first, that new research tonight, just in from south korea. fears there and elsewhere that people were testing positive for the virus twice. they're now saying in south korea there was something wrong with the testing. tonight, what they now think about why those tests were coming back positive, and what it means on whether the patients were infectious to others a second time. it could be a major development. >>> also tonight, we continue to report on the race to find a vaccine. tonight, the news from pfizer, speeding up human trials for a possible vaccine here in the u.s. and germany. conducting phase one and phase two at the same time. 330 patients taking part. and what they're seeing so far. >>> president trump defending his own choice to take hydroxychloroquine. the fda has warned americans about the drug, saying you should only be taking it for covid-19 if you're in a hospital or in a clinical trial. so why is the president taking it? his reasoning late today. and the vice president, is he t

the hydroxychloroquine. he is the one that signed the application. he also happens to be if you look -- see whether or not. i will put it on you. see whether or not he's a big contributor to the democrats could see whether or not he won at the win. a lot of bad things coming out about him. but you people don't want to write the news, you know. but he is the one that signed the application. the very important form. he signed it. now, if he doesn't believe in it, why would he sign it? and a lot of good things have come out about the hydroxy. you'd be surprised at how many people are taking it, especially the front-line workers before you catch it. the front-line workers -- many, many are taking it. i happened to be taking it. i happened to be taking it. hydroxychloroquine. right now, yeah. a couple of weeks ago, i started taking it. i've heard a lot of good stories. and if it is not good, i will tell you right. i'm not going to get hurt by it. it has been around for 40 years for malaria, for lupus, for other t

the drug is a familiar one by now, hydroxychloroquine. and before going any further, i do want to just read directly from the fda's april 24th bulletin on this drug. quote, the fda is aware of reports of serious heart rhythm problems in patients with covid-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. additionally, quote, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing covid-19. those first words bear repeating. serious heart rhythm, heart problems in patients with he covid-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine. and a study published days ago in the

hydroxychloroquine. he's all over it. thank you, chris, we'll see you soon. >> d lemon, my man. >> this is cnn tonight. i'm don lemon. here is our breaking news. on the day the coronavirus death toll in this country passes 90,000, the president suddenly announces that he is taking an unproven drug that medical experts warn can have harmful side effects. this is really deadly serious. it is quite dangerous. really, quite dangerous. and, yet, the president, almost just offhandedly, drops a bomb into the middle of his q and a with reporters today, shocking them with the news that he is taking hydroxychloroquine. a drug his own fda has warned against. >> the frontline workers, before you catch it. the frontline workers, many, many are taking it. i happen to be taking it. i happen to be taking it. i'm taking it. hydroxychloroquine. >> when? >> right now, yeah. couple weeks ago, started taking it. because i think it's good. i've heard a lot of good stories. and if it's not good, i'll tell you right, i'm not going to get hurt by

the good thing about hydroxychloroquine is what? it's not over the counter. so at the same time one has to find a physician who will agree to this. the reality is, i'm not sure what's going on out there anymore regarding hydroxychloroquine. and, you know, what we have to do is be able to control it by the examples we give for the american public. one, it's never been proven to work as a preventive measure. it's not working in that realm. okay. we can have the studies. but now is not the time to self experiment here, folks. >> dana, the president claimed that the doctors who warned about hydroxychloroquine were making what he called a trump enemy statement, trump enemy statement. why has he so heavily politicized a malaria drug that most of us haven't heard of until a few months ago? >> because in his mind, people who don't agree with him, even though in this scenario it's not a factual statement, it's the president acting as doctor, that they're wrong, and that doctors are wrong, that they must not like him, it must be a political statement, when, as you just

i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. >> when did you -- >> right now, yeah. a couple of weeks ago i started taking it. i think it's good, i heard a lot of good stories. if it's not good, i'll tell you right. not going to get hurt by it. >> did the white house doctor recommend that you take it, is that why you're taking? >> he didn't recommend it. he said, would you like to take it? i said, yeah. a lot of front-line workers are taking hydroxychloroquine. i don't take it because -- hey, people said maybe he owns the company. i don't own the company. you know what, i want the people of this nation to feel good. this is a pill that's been used for a long time for 30, 40 years on the malaria and on lupus, too. and even on arthritis i guess from what i understand. it's been heavily tested in terms of -- i was waiting to see your eyes light up when i said this, when i announced this. i've tarik i've taken it for about a week and a half. i'm still here. >> can you explain, though, what is th

hydroxychloroquine. and, before going any further, i do want to just read directly from the fda's april 24th bulletin on this drug. quote, the fda is aware of reports of serious heart rhythm problems in patients with covid-19 treated with hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. additionally, quote, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine have not been shown to be safe and effective for treating or preventing covid-19. but those first words bear repeating. serious heart rhythm problems. and a study published just days ago in the journal of american medical association showed patients who took the drug, in combination with the antibiotic used in z packs, which the president also touts, were twice as likely to suffer cardiac arrest. that's on top of other studies on the related drug chloroquine alone in which patients have also developed abnormal heart rhythms. the leader of the free world, taking a drug with no apparent benefits for what he is taking it for. could be putting him at risk for serious heart problems, a

i happen to be taking it. >> hydroxychloroquine? >> i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. >> when? >> right now. yeah. a couple weeks ago i started taking it. i want the people of this nation to feel good. i don't want them being sick, and there's a very good chance that this has an impact. >> i'm telling you, it's a winning argument for him. beat me up all you want. sanjay's going to come on for a second. we got rich besser tonight who used to head up the cdc. excellent doctors. they'll slap around what the president is doing. it's irrelevant. okay? he wins this argument. why? because he believes, because he's taken a chance, because he's strong. he's not the party of no. he's not the democrats, no, don't take the hydroxychloroquine just in case, you stay home, you can't go out, you can't work, you can't eat, you can't live. that's where he's put the democrats. some of it's messaging. some of it's more than that. now, why did he do this? who cares why because it works. all right? now, let's bring in sanjay gupta. okay? sanjay is not here to talk politics. he's here to check obviou

is it advisable for the president to be taking hydroxychloroquine? >> no. he shouldn't be taking this. there is no evidence that it works as a pro foe lactic drug. it could be harmful, cause problems to the heart. he has heart problems. the fda has said this should not be used outside of clinical trials. there is a clinical trial for proef lax is on workers who have had a lot of exposure. i think people will go out and start hoarding this medication and there are people who use it for legitimate regions. th -- reasons. >> what do you think, dr. bessler? >> the fda is a trusted source of information for what drugs are safe and effective. i worry that people will hear and think there is evidence that this works and that people could be harmed because all drugs have side effects, people with other medications, people who take this could be harmed by it. it is not a good thing for the general public to do. let's see what these studies do in terms of prevention. >> it is an effective drug, dr. boeser are y. are you worried with the president it outing it, people

for the third time in 24 hours the president sang the praises of hydroxychloroquine. health experts fear he's sending a risky message to stay at home americans as reopening plans are under way in every state by the end of this week. jeremy, the president took questions at a tab ncabinet meea while ago and tripled down on taking hydroxychloroquine. >> reporter: he did triple down. the president is taking a daily dose of that and has been for about a week and a half. the president insisting it is an additional line of defense. he also attacked numerous studies that show it is not effective against the virus. tonight president trump defiant defending his decision to try to ward off the coronavirus by taking an unproven drug, hydroxychloroquine. >> many doctors came out and said it's great. they said you have to go to a doctor. i said i have a doctor in the white house. it is a line of defense. i am dealing with a lot of people. >> reporter: the president ignoring a warning by the fd arca about using hydroxychloroquine. they said it was not effective treatment for coronav

the president revealed he is taking hydroxychloroquine.eas an elected l is that an example you would set? sen. scott: i have not talked to him or his doctor about why they are doing it. i would have taken it when i went to africa in regards to malaria, but i havy not talked toctor about it. it's between him and his doctor. res what i like. i like the fact that the fda has allowed doctors to practice dicine and use their judgment on a per patient basement -- basis. i think dr. steves hahn ne the right thing. but this is a decision that trump has made with his doctor. laura: senator rick scott, thank you for joining us. sen. scott: thank you. have a good day. laura: you are watching "bbc world news america." stl to come on tonight's program. india and bangladesh evacuate millions of people froms are a super cyclone approaches. ♪ laura:as easyjeteen hit by a massive cyber attack. 9 million customers had their email and travel information coromise. credit card incermation with . joe: 9 million customers have had their email addresses and their

lead researcher of one recent major study of hydroxychloroquine. david, thanks for joining us again. first of all, when you hear the president talking like this about hydroxychloroquine, what's your reaction? >> well, i think it's important to be able to separate a what a public official does as a private patient and what they might talk to their physician about versus what they say when they're speaking as a public official and government leader. i think when someone speaks as a government leader, it's really important that they be able to describe what we know and what we not know in the literature and to be able to talk completely what does the evidence say, what are we finding in the new england journal of medicine study, our study in the journal of american medical association, and to give people complete information about what's working, what's not working and what potential side effects are. i think it's also important that when a public official comes forward, there is a reflection of what their access to medical care might be compared to p

if you took antibiotics and hydroxychloroquine, more people die. desperate times people started toing r doi doing things and it is dangerous. it is something and it is something very dangerous and if not followed correctly, you have ten times greater chance of having heart arrhythmia. this medication hydroxychloroquine can prolong the time the chambers of the heart communicating with each other and you can have all these erratic arrhythmias. hydroxychloroquine does not help with the covid virus and now there is proofs, not only it does not help but when you are sick and it is life-threatening. >> there is a small study that found higher risks of deaths. here is what the president said when he was asked about that. >> there was a false study done where they gave it to extremely sick people, people who were ready to die. it was given not friends of the administration. the people were ready to die and everybody was old. that study was a phony study put out by the va. a lot of people have taken it. it gotten a bad reputation because i am promoting it.

i know nih is asking for volunteers for hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin for mild to moderate cases of covid and i say about time, what took them so long? thank you for coming on tonight. a latest attempt to smear the president and discredit the potentially life saving treatments that he supports, including hydroxychloroquine. now, needless politicizing over a drug that people have been using, as i said, for decades, that has been used by people in their lives for other conditions and off label use, it's been used for off label use for years and years and years but suddenly trump mentions it and it's radioactive. out there, my next guest says that the state pharmacy board is requiring her to reveal patients' medical diagnoses in order to attain the drug. dr. joins me now, if you are in texas. isn't that a violation of privacy that you are being questioned as a physician in that manner? >> absolutely, this is what was very alarming to me. when i wrote a prescription and had the pharmacy call me and let me know that he could not fill that without me disclosing the diagnosis of the pat

in patients who have covid-19, that all of the trials to date have not shown any effect of hydroxychloroquine in terms of shortening the duration of infection. we also know that combined with azithromycin, the other medicine the president mentioned he was taking, not only was there no benefit seen with hydroxychloroquine plus azithromycin, but there was in fact an increased rate of abnormal heart rhythms. these are not benign medications. there is no evidence that tells us that taking hydroxychloroquine is either safe or effective for preventing covid-19 infection. as leaders, it's essential that we lead by example. it's true for public officials in particular when the spotlight is on them. and this risks sending the wrong message to people and that could come at a serious cost to their health. >> that's a significant point, sanjay. the drug clearly has some potential harmful side effects. do you worry that the president announcing today publicly, it's a huge headline, that he's taking it, will lead americans to rush out and try to get more of this drug even if it's not necessarily right for

president trump says he is taking hydroxychloroquine.s a commonly used anti- malaria drug that he's repeatedly promoted as a game changer for treating coronavirus. just last month the f.d.a.waocts of using that drug on s heart oblems and said it had not been shown to be safe or effective, but tonight the president appears to be brushing aside those concerns, saying it was his idea to take the drug along with zinc as a way to prevent catching the virus. he says he's been taking it for about a week and a half. that's around the same time two white house aides, including the valet who serves his lunch, tested positive. and as we come on the air tonight, more than 1.5 million others have also tested positive nationwide. and more than 90,000 people have been killed right here in the u.s. but there is some promising news to report tonight on efforts to stop the virus. moderna, a massachusetts-based company, says at least eight igople in its vaccine trial have developed a positive immune response to covid-19. and that sent the dow soaring today

i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now, yeah.ng it, because i think it's good. i've heard a lot of good stories. the world health organization has repeatedly said there is no scientific evidence so far that hydroxychloroquine can treat covid—i9, let alone prevent infection with it. the who had been running clinical trials to test anecdotal reports that it might be beneficial. now, those trials have been stopped after a study suggested the drug could cause heart problems and might even increase deaths among covid—i9 patients. the executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the solidarity trial while the data, the safety data, is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board. the who said the decision to suspend trials was a precautionary measure. now, it will gather more data on safety before deciding whether to continue testing. however, it said patients taking hydroxychloroquine for established reasons, such as malaria, should continue to do so. imogen foulkes, bbc news, geneva. let's ge

he has several on the record statements about hydroxychloroquine.ing, i'm an optimist, i'm hopeful about the drug. we will try it as soon as we get it. there's anecdotal evidence that it is promising. i have eight other quotes from governor cuomo should any of you have interest in that. >> they are trials in the early stages. the you have any evidence that thousands of frontline workers are using it because they believe it will prevent them from getting sick? >> the fda has approved this for a label use. this president is a big believer in the right to try legislation. there are studies that the president has mentioned that i would refer you to. there was a french study. it involved more than 1000 patients. the vast majority had good clinical outcomes. that was more than 90%. the was an italian study of more than six 5000 patients that demonstrated only 20 have been positive of those were taking a prophylactic. there are several studies. this is a safe drug to use. your doctor prescribes it for use as a prophylaxis or after coming into contact with

. >> we had a lot of discussion with hydroxychloroquine. i am confused here because as my understanding that this is barta, barta and the role of barta and the mission of barta to look at things like this. when we in congress appropriate and allocate money to go towards this that you were supposed to be looking and barta is supposed to be looking at things that have merit such as chloroquine and hoydroxychloroquine. earlier on you were in favor of that. because we did not have any vaccine, we should be testing and that's where we are appropriating that money from. did you agree with that? that's what we are trying to do to look at what possibly work and work with public companies to try to encourage them to come up with those kinds of solutions? >> absolutely. >> we should look at all options and make sure we evaluate the potential risk and safety and benefit of those and control and we should get that clinical data as urgently as possible. we should not proceed recklessly. >> you are referring we should not proceed adversely, you are refer

i'm taking it, hydroxychloroquine. right now, yeah. i think it's good. i've heard a lot of good stories. the world health organization has repeatedly said there is no scientific evidence so far that hydroxychloroquine can treat covid—i9, let alone prevent infection with it. the who had been running clinical trials to test anecdotal reports that it might be beneficial. now, those trials have been stopped after a study suggested the drug could cause heart problems and might even increase deaths among covid—i9 patients. the executive group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the solidarity trial while the data, the safety data, is reviewed by the data safety monitoring board. the who said the decision to suspend trials was a precautionary measure. now, it will gather more data on safety before deciding whether to continue testing. however, it said patients taking hydroxychloroquine for established reasons, such as malaria, should continue to do so. imogen foulkes, bbc news, geneva. let's get some of the

effects of this drug and hydroxychloroquine can cause real problems, deadly problems for people with heart issues. it does interact with cholesterol reducing drugs and hydroxychloroquine goes straight into breast milk, so it's not for everyone. you know, the trump white house is feeling pressure when they put out a written statement after the president says something ultra strange on tv and tonight, the physician to the president put out a rare public statement under the subject heading hydroxychloroquine. and that statement does not say that the white house physician prescribed the drug to the president and the statement does not say that the president is actually taking the drug. it just says after numerous discussions, he and i had regarding the evidence for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit from treatment out weighed the relative risks. okay. that's what you concluded and so what? did you then prescribe the drug? if you did prescribe the drug, in what dose did you prescribe the drug? none of that information is there. that leaves nancy

hydroxychloroquine. right now. >> reporter: during a roundtable with restaurant executives, the president revealed he has been taking the drug hydroxychloroquine along with the zinc for nearly 2 weeks to try and prevent the

do you believe it's okay to take hydroxychloroquine or for the president to take it? do you think it might in some crazy way be preventative, which as sanjay says nobody has even proven at all. do you think the president is doing the right thing? and i remember back during the 2016 election the president always talked about the potential for an election to be rigged. that's a favorite word of his. now what he's saying is the science is rigged. the scientists are rigged. this is an enemy statement, this academic study, and that anybody who disagrees with him on this question of hydroxychloroquine is because they are an enemy of his and they don't like him. so the signal to the american public, then, is don't believe the science? don't believe what the scientists are telling you, believe me because i have your best interest at heart. >> yeah, let's just be real about this. let's look at the time line on this. the president suddenly discovers his valet has coronavirus, so he is upset by that. and because suddenly it is in his world and it affects him, suddenly everybody

that's about hydroxychloroquine.ion that on monday, in the face of that testimony, that trump, in an effort to salvage reputation and say, "hey, you know what, i don't care what all the rest of you people say, i know the drug is safe," and he'd claim the ultimate truth, i'm taking it myself, i think that that is a very compelling explanation for what's going on here, against the backdrop of lies that he tells all the time. then look at the doctor's letter. you looked at it in the 6:00 letter. if the doctor prescribed it to donald trump, and you're putting out a letter, you'd say, "yes, the president is taking the drug and just said so," the doctors would say that, right? you'd stand to reason. instead, the doctor's note is carefully written to give the impression that the doctor has prescribed the drug to donald trump, but it never says he has prescribed the drug to donald trump. i think the circumstantial evidence is strong that this is now 18,423 of the lies of donald trump in his first term as president. >> all ri

combination that involved hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine. what they found is that the folks who took these drugs were 33 to 45% more likely to die. and that's after adjusting for all sorts of differences between these patients. they were still 33 to 45% more likely to die. they were also between 2.4 and 5 times more likely to develop heart arrhythmias. i talked to a doctor about the earlier studies and he felt like it was pretty much like the nail in the coffin, now doctors are telling me this really looks like the nail in the coffin for hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients. that's not the same as taking it preventatively, but there hasn't been any evidence that it works preventatively, either. >> okay, and that's a question we'll ask the doctors, too, an important distinction. we're also learning more results from vaccine studies, and that follows a string of results this week. nih study, afrizeneca study. what should we take from them? >> this is a study on humans published in the american literature. that means doctors and experts