May 18, 2020 

President Donald Trump announced on Monday that he’d been taking hydroxychloroquine, the latest twist in a weekslong effort by the president to signal there is an effective treatment in the battle against the coronavirus.

The only problem: Most scientists disagree.

“A couple of weeks ago, I started taking it,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Monday, adding that he’d consulted with his presidential physician about the drug.

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