White House trade adviser Peter Navarro argued he is qualified to disagree with Dr. Anthony Fauci on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment and defended 'the possibility' of its efficiency—which Fauci has emphasized is not yet proven.
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Calling himself a"social scientist," White House trade adviser and Defense Production Act policy coordinator Peter Navarro argued to CNN this morning that he is qualified to disagree with Dr. Anthony Fauci on the use of hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment and defended "the possibility" of its efficiency -- which Fauci has emphasized is not yet proven.
The president's top trade adviser said he was offering a"second opinion," on the drug and primarily referenced a control group study out of Wuhan, China -- done with moderately ill patients and was not double-blind but showed some potential benefits -- adding he had spoken to some doctors who had found it useful. He also claimed some on the frontlines were taking the drug as a prophylactic.
Trump indicated on Sunday that the government is using federal resources to make the drug available, saying,"We have stockpiled 29 million pills of the hydroxychloroquine...And they're not expensive. What do you have to lose?"Giroir: 'Optimistic' by May there will be tens of millions of antibody tests available to Americans
Serologic testing, more commonly known as an antibody test, only requires a drop of blood and sniffs out virus antibodies. The test can't detect whether an individual presently has the virus, but it can tell if they already had it or had been exposed to it at some point in the past because their immune system has developed antibodies to fight it.
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