Malaria drug Trump touted as Covid cure increased chance of death – study

Study calculated that there was an 11% increase in mortality associated with cases involving the use of hydroxychloroquine

People who took an anti-malaria treatment that Donald Trump touted as a cure for Covid-19 in the early days of the pandemic and waning days of his presidency were 11% more likely to die from the virus, according to a new scientific study.

The study's authors - who published their findings in the peer-reviewed Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy journal - also estimated that nearly 17,000 people in six different countries, including the US, died after contracting Covid-19 and taking the antimalarial hydroxychloroquine.