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For months, President Trump has promoted hydroxychloroquine<\/a> as a potential treatment for covid-19, calling the anti-malarial drug a \u201cgame changer,\u201d asking patients, \u201cWhat do you have to lose?\u201d \u2014 and even announcing that he was taking the drug himself in an attempt to ward off the novel coronavirus<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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On Monday, however, the World Health Organization announced it had temporarily halted its global trial of the drug, citing a new study<\/a> that found a significantly higher risk of death among those taking hydroxychloroquine or the closely related drug chloroquine.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Executive Group has implemented a temporary pause of the hydroxychloroquine arm within the Solidarity Trial while the safety data is reviewed by the Data Safety Monitoring Board,\u201d Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the WHO\u2019s director general, said in a briefing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump, meanwhile, said on Sunday that he is no longer taking hydroxychloroquine, but again defended the drug as a covid-19 treatment, pointing to \u201ctremendous, rave reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in it enough that I took a program because I had two people in the White House that tested positive,\u201d Trump told Sharyl Attkisson of the Sinclair Broadcast Group<\/a> noting that his \u201ctwo-week course\u201d of the drug had recently finished.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd by the way, I\u2019m still here,\u201d Trump added. \u201cTo the best of my knowledge, here I am.\u201d<\/p>\n

The WHO\u2019s decision is the latest setback for backers of hydroxychloroquine, which has produced a series of disappointing results in scientific studies. In April, the Food and Drug Administration warned against<\/a> using the drug outside of hospitals and clinical trials over reports of \u201cserious heart rhythm problems\u201d linked to the drug\u2019s use.<\/p>\n

On Friday, the medical journal Lancet published a study <\/a>of 96,000 hospitalized covid-19 patients worldwide that found a 45 percent increased risk of death and a 411 percent increased risk of serious heart arrhythmias among those taking a cocktail of antibiotics and the antimalarial drug.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there was ever hope for this drug, this is the death of it,\u201d Eric Topol, a cardiologist and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute, told The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The WHO started a clinical trial earlier this year to test hydroxychloroquine along with three other experimental treatments. Due to the alarming findings published in the Lancet, Ghebreyesus said Monday, the use of hydoxychloroquine in the trial, which now has more than 3,500 patients in 17 countries, will temporarily halt.<\/p>\n

The trial will continue for the other three drugs, and the WHO will likely decide within the next two weeks whether to resume using hydroxychloroquine, chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan told NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This weekend, Trump continued to promote the drug.<\/p>\n

The president had revealed earlier this month that he was taking hydroxychloroquine <\/a>after one of his military valets and Vice President Pence\u2019s press secretary, Katie Miller, tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Asked by Attkisson whether it was appropriate for him to take the drug despite the official warnings, the president stood by his decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell, I\u2019ve heard tremendous reports about it. Frankly, I\u2019ve heard tremendous reports. Many people think it saved their lives. Doctors come out with reports,\u201d he said, citing in particular an \u201cincredible\u201d study in France. (A study by French researcher Didier Raoult<\/a> that helped fuel initial enthusiasm for hydroxychloroquine has since been discredited by scientists<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Trump added, \u201cHydroxy has had tremendous, if you look at it, tremendous, rave reviews.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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