US House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi has criticized President Donald Trump for taking hydroxychloroquine against coronavirus.
During an interview on CNN, Pelosi said that the US President should not be taking a drug that has not been approved by the scientist, especially being ‘morbidly obese’.
Pelosi said: “He’s our president, and I would rather he not be taking something that has not been approved by the scientists, especially in his age group and his, shall we say, weight group … morbidly obese, they say,”
Trump’s government has warned that hydroxychloroquine should only be administered in a hospital or research setting due to potentially fatal side effects.
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So it came as a shock when Trump revealed on Monday that he has been taking the drug on a daily basis for the past 10 days.
Trump’s physician confirmed in a letter that Trump tested negative for the coronavirus, and that they were both concluded that “the potential benefit from treatment outweighed the relative risks.”
Trump told reporters: “I take it, I would’ve told you that three, four days ago, but we never had a chance because you never asked me the question.”
At Trump’s last full checkup in February 2019, he passed the official threshold for being considered obese, with a Body Mass Index of 30.4 at the age of 73.