While there is currently no cure for COVID-19, Dr. Uché Blackstock, a Yahoo News medical contributor and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, says there are therapeutics that President Trump's medical team could try if his condition worsens.
Shortly before President Trump headed to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center Trump’s physician said in a health update that the president received a single 8-gram dose of Regeneron’s polyclonal antibody cocktail “as a precautionary measure,” and that Trump has also been taking zinc, vitamin D, famotidine, melatonin and aspirin.
“I think based on the data that we have so far for hydroxychloroquine that it would be quite unwise for his doctors to give him that medication,” Dr. Uché Blackstock, a Yahoo News medical contributor and CEO of Advancing Health Equity, said earlier Friday afternoon. “We know that it has very serious side effects, and the data is not convincing in support of taking that medication for COVID-19.
Story continuesAnother potential treatment is dexamethasone — a steroid that Blackstock says has been shown to decrease mortality rates in people who require supplemental oxygen or have to be placed on a mechanical ventilator to help with their breathing. Trump’s position as commander in chief may also grant him access to treatments that aren’t yet available to the general public.
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