Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday he is not taking hydroxychloroquine. This comes after President Trump revealed a day earlier he was taking the decades-old anti-malarial as a preventive treatment for the coronavirus
Vice President Mike Pence said on Tuesday he is not taking hydroxychloroquine, after President Donald Trump revealed a day earlier he was using the decades-old anti-malarial drug as a preventive treatment for the coronavirus.Fox News’ Kristin Fisher in an interview, according to a transcript of his response released by the vice president’s office.“My physician has not recommended that, but I wouldn’t hesitate to take the counsel of my doctor,” he added. “Any American should do likewise.
The president was again pressed on his decision to take the drug, during a cabinet meeting on Tuesday afternoon. Trump defended positive reports backing the drug and dismissed as “phony” a study involving patients at veterans hospitals that found the malaria drug could have dangerous side effects. Trump added that hydroxychloroquine has a “bad reputation only because I‘m promoting it,“ and said the drug had had no negative impacts on his health. He then turned to HHS Secretary Alex Azar and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Wilkie.
"That was not a VA study,” Wilkie said. “Researchers took VA numbers. And they did not clinically review them. They were not peer-reviewed. They did not even look at what the president just mentioned — the various comorbidities that the patients who were referenced in that study had. I also want to echo what the secretary of HHS said.“
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