Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said that President Trump shouldn’t be taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine because he’s “morbidly obese” and at risk for negati…
for a week and a half. His physician, Sean P. Conley, said in a White House press release that he and the president think taking the drug is worth the possible harmful side effects.
“After numerous discussions he and I had regarding the evidence for and against the use of hydroxychloroquine, we concluded the potential benefit outweighed the relative risk,” Conley said. Dr. Anthony Fauci, a senior member of the White House’s coronavirus task force, has also voiced his doubt about using hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID-19 before it could be properly tested.
Trump said he started taking hydroxychloroquine because he had read letters from frontline responders saying they were taking it to be safe.In a medical examination from last year, Trump was considered obese, but not morbidly obese. To fall in that weight category, a person needs to weigh 100 pounds more than his or her ideal body weight or have a body mass index of 40 or more.
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