Covid-19 roundup: Trump says he's been taking hydroxychloroquine for days; Moderna raises $1.3B on the heels of groundbreaking data
A couple of months after he started touting hydroxychloroquine as a potential treatment for Covid-19 on thin evidence, President Donald Trump revealed that he’s been taking the anti-malaria drug for a little over a week.
Trump’s public promotion of the drug — as well as his aides’ behind-the-scenes work to push for wider use — has been the center of a whistleblower complaint in which Rick Bright, the former chief of BARDA, alleged he was ousted for resisting the pressure to endorse the unproven therapy and chloroquine, a similar compound.
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