<em>Social Distance</em>: Trump’s Miracle Cure
Hydroxychloroquine has become a recent fixation of President Donald Trump, who has taken to promoting the century-old malaria medication in press briefings, brazenly overriding his medical advisers to suggest that it could work as a treatment for COVID-19.
How did conspiracy theories and desperation bring this drug to the president’s attention? What exactly does it do? And when will we know what treatments actually work against the COVID-19?
Katherine Wells and James Hamblin discuss on the latest episode of Social Distance, the Atlantic’s podcast about living through the pandemic.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
What is hydroxychloroquine?
