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Trump says he is taking controversial coronavirus treatment hydroxychloroquine
Extraordinary news emerging from the White House – the president has mentioned that he has been taking hydroxychloroquine. This is the dubious treatment for coronavirus that Trump had fiercely touted in the past but which was found to have a very mixed effect on patients.
No studies so far have shown that it had a good effect on patients and regulators have advised it not be taken outside of a hospital or clinical trial setting.
Trump said earlier at the White House that he was taking it, it is understood as a prophylactic.
The US Food and Drug Administration cautions against use of hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine for Covid-19 outside of a hospital setting or a clinical trial due to risk of heart rhythm problems.
Before recent results from larger trials showed the anti-viral medicine was not good for Covid and could be harmful, Trump was promoting it, including at White House briefings, as a possible miracle cure for coronavirus.
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For weeks, Joe Biden has been on the receiving end of unsolicited advice urging the homebound presidential candidate to get out of his basement.
On Monday, Biden moved out of the basement to a sunny room upstairs with views of his lush backyard in full bloom to address the AAPI Victory Fund virtual summit.
The shot was well-framed and the connection was clear – marked improvements from a recent virtual rally that was riddled with technical glitches.
But as he began his remarks, a gaggle of Canadian geese that have taken up residence on his property began honking. Biden warned that this might happen and did not pause when their honking grew louder.
There were some technical difficulties; though on this occasion, they were not Biden’s fault. The former vice president was not feted with introductory remarks after the speaker, Dilawar Syed, was unable to connect properly. And at one point, as Biden spoke, a cell phone rang.
But if he was irritated, Biden didn’t show it. He assailed Trump for his administration’s handling of the virus that he described as a series of “denials, delays and distraction, many of which were nakedly xenophobic.”
Trump has sought to make China a theme of the 2020 presidential campaign by hammering Biden in a series of dark attack ads tying the former vice president to Beijing. Biden has responded in kind, in an escalating war of words that has alarmed some Asian Americans who say the rhetoric from both campaigns could further inflame anti-Asian xenophobia.
In his remarks, Biden spoke directly to the Asian American community, which has faced a wave of attacks and even violence in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, which was first identified in Wuhan, China.
Biden accused Trump of stoking racial grievance and said the Asian American community deserved better than a president who “never, ever misses an opportunity to stoke innuendo, to fan the flames of hate.”
“This is unconscionable what he’s doing and it strikes at the very heart of this country,” Biden said, adding that Trump’s rhetoric was “especially despicable” given the sacrifices many Asian Americans are making as frontline and essential workers in the fight against the coronavirus.
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Source: US Politics - theguardian.com