After Donald Trump shocked many by announcing that he was taking the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, White House doctor Sean Conley said that he and the president decided that “the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks” while determining whether or not Trump should take the controversial drug.
According to The Hill, Conley released a 114-word letter hours after Trump told reporters that he had started taking the drug prophylactically. Recently, one of Trump’s aides tested positive for the coronavirus, increasing the possibility that the president could be infected with the virus himself.
Trump has repeatedly championed the drug as a treatment for COVID-19, despite numerous studies that show little-to-no effectiveness in the drug for off-label coronavirus use.
“I asked him what do you think,” Trump said of his doctor. “He said, ‘Well if you’d like it.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I’d like it. I’d like to take it.'”
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