Hydroxychloroquine expert fact-checks President Trump's claims about drug as coronavirus treatment

There are many topics that President Donald Trump returns to in his daily coronavirus task force briefings — ventilator stockpiles, hospital ships, governors who are flattening the curve — but few have been as vigorously endorsed as the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine.

In the absence of more evidence, however, Trump has continued to tout the anti-malaria drug, saying in a briefing over the weekend that he “may take it,” and that it’s both “powerful” and “profound.” In a Tuesday press conference, he cited a Democratic lawmaker in Michigan who believes the drug saved her life — and thanked Trump for pushing to make it available.

Trump claim: The benefits of hydroxychloroquine outweigh the risksAt a press briefing Tuesday, Trump suggested the risks associated with hydroxychloroquine are not an issue to be concerned with. “The side effects are the least of it, there are people dying all over the place — and generally the side effects are really with the Z-pack having to do with the heart,” Trump said. “The Z-pack. That's the antibiotic, not with hydroxychloroquine.

The most common side effects associated with hydroxychloroquine are headache, dizziness, nausea and vomiting, but cardiotoxicity — “medication-induced damage to the heart” — has been documented as a “rare but serious complication” of the drug. Z-packs, as Trump mentioned, have also been tied to deadly heart complications, also in rare cases.

Trump claim: Hydroxychloroquine is showing “great results”After sharing the story of the Democratic lawmaker in Michigan on Tuesday, Trump said there are “many stories” like that one and reiterated to Americans that the drug is working. “I'm not a doctor, I'm just saying we hear great results and some people say, let's go to a laboratory. Let's test it for a couple of years now,” Trump said.

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