Stepping in to prevent Dr. Anthony Fauci from answering a question about the President’s “preferred prescription”

Trump Is Maybe Staking His Presidency On Hydroxychloroquine

“What have you got to lose?”, he asks…

Here’s what:

• It’s flooding doctors and hotlines with phone calls from patients who are not ill, perhaps hindering access for people who are sick. Especially since the President Sunday suggested people consider taking Hydroxychloroquine preventively, not only if they’re sick: “They say taking it before the fact is good”.
• It’s creating priorities for those working directly under the President to get that drug distributed quickly in all corners of the country, again perhaps at the expense of getting other drugs or materials out as quickly or in great number, which may eventually have more of an impact.
• It’s taking attention away from other drugs and therapies that may be more effective.

There are a lot of other drugs out there that are being tried and used off-label that aren’t top of mind for the President.

And that’s the question we wish someone would ask the President: why are you so unceasingly focused on touting this one drug? (Or two, perhaps, if you prescribe it — as the President often suggests — as part of a “cocktail” with Azithromycin, an antibiotic)? Who got in his ear about it?