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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