Donald Trump spent Monday on Twitter touting an outlier study published by the Henry Ford Health System in Michigan about an anti-malarial drug he has previously presented as a ‘miracle‘ cure for COVID-19.
“Treatment with hydroxychloroquine cut the death rate significantly in sick patients hospitalized with COVID-19 — and without heart-related side-effects, according to a new study published by Henry Ford Health System,” Trump tweeted. “In a large-scale retrospective analysis, of 2,541 patients hospitalized between March 10 and May 2, 2020 across the system’s six hospitals, the study found 13 percent of those treated with hydroxychloroquine alone died compared to 26.4 percent not treated with hydroxychloroquine.”
The findings of the study have been disputed by other researchers. Continue reading.