Thread by @JuddLegum

1. "A study of 96,000 hospitalized coronavirus patients on six continents found that those who received an antimalarial drug promoted by President Trump as a 'game changer' in the fight against the virus had a significantly higher risk of death compared with those who did not."

2. "People treated with hydroxychloroquine, or the closely related drug chloroquine, were also more likely to develop a type of irregular heart rhythm, or arrhythmia, that can lead to sudden cardiac death, it concluded."

3. “It’s one thing not to have benefit, but this shows distinct harm,” said Eric Topol, a cardiologist and director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute. “If there was ever was hope for this drug, this is the death of it.”

4. David Maron, director of preventive cardiology at the Stanford University School of Medicine, said that “these findings provide absolutely no reason for optimism that these drugs might be useful in the prevention or treatment of covid-19.”

washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05…

5. Trump's campaign is touting junk data about hydroxychloroquine from a fringe group that suggested HIV doesn't cause AIDS and Obama hypnotized Jews popular.info/p/rise-of-the-…

6. Despite this and earlier studies showing the drug was ineffective and dangerous, the VA continues to give hydroxychloroquine to veterans

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7. Lives are risk: "For those receiving hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic — the cocktail endorsed by Trump — there was a 45 percent increased risk of death and a 411 percent increased risk of serious heart arrhythmias."

washingtonpost.com/health/2020/05…

8. Twitter says it will "prioritize removing content when it has a clear call to action that could directly pose a risk to people’s health or well-being"

Here is Trump advocating a drug cocktail now proven to increase risk of death by 45%

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