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Trump Pushes Unproven COVID Treatment

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   U.S. President Donald Trump is again pushing a successful treatment for
   malaria, lupus, and arthritis to use against thenewcoronavirus despite
   its unproven effectiveness for COVID-19, the disease caused bythe
   virus.

   "What have you got to lose?" Trump asked at a Sunday White House
   briefing in which he touted hydroxychloroquine.

   He said there are 29 million doses of the drug stockpiled, calling it a
   "very strong and powerful medicine...that doesn't kill people."

   Trump said people are dying andthere is no time to take a couple of
   years to test it out.

   The Food and Drug Administration says it made an emergency approval for
   the drug to be prescribed because it says there are no alternative
   treatments for COVID-19.

   But White House task force member and the country's top infectious
   disease expert, Dr. AnthonyFauci, said on CBS's Face the Nation Sunday
   there is nothing that scientifically proves it has any benefit against
   the coronavirus.

   "The data are really just, at best, suggestive. There have been cases
   that show there may be an effect and there are others to show there's
   no effect,"Faucisaid.

   When a reporter at Sunday's briefing tried to askFaucito comment on
   hydroxychloroquine, Trump jumped in and wouldn't let the doctor answer
   the question that Trump said was already asked "15 times".

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