A drug infamously touted by Donald Trump has been linked to nearly 17,000 Covid deaths in a new scientific study.

Researchers say that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine was prescribed to patients during the first wave of Covid-19 “despite the absence of evidence documenting its clinical benefits.”

The French study estimated that 16,990 patients in the US, France, Belgium, Italy, Spain and Turkey may have died as a result of the drug.

The study has been published in the February issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.

Researchers say the data used comes from a study published in the Nature scientific journal, which reported that there was an 11 per cent increase in mortality rate linked to the drug’s prescription.

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    11 months ago

    Doesn’t his buddy own the company that makes the stuff?

    This was a pumb and dump scam that Trump ran right from the White House.

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      Personally I liked his stint as a bean salesman while in the white house, just casually sitting at the resolute desk hocking beans…just president stuff NBD.

      the orange idiot selling beans from the oval