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President Donald Trump said he had "just finished" taking a two-week course of the antimalarial drug&nbsp;, the medication he has vigorously promoted as a preventative or curative treatment for the&nbsp;, even as evidence piles up that the drug may cause more harm than good."Finished, just finished," he said in an&nbsp;that aired on Sinclair Broadcasting on Sunday"And by the way, I'm still here."The president again defended his decision to take, and talk about, the unproven treatment in the interview, amid Food and Drug Administration warnings against using the drug for COVID-19&nbsp;.Hydroxychloroquine is an antimalarial drug that is often used to treat lupus and rheumatoid disease. There are no approved treatments for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus."Well, I've heard tremendous reports about it. Frankly, I've heard tremendous reports. Many people think it saved their lives. Doctors come out with reports. You had a study in France, you had a study in Italy that were incredible studies," Trump said, failing to acknowledge the studies that tied the drug to a greater risk of death or those that found no benefit at all.Trump suggested that he'd taken it because two White House workers had tested positive for the virus."I believe in it enough that I took a program because I had two people in the White House that tested positive," he said. "I figured maybe it's a good thing to take a program."There have been several studies into the effect of hydroxychloroquine on patients sick with COVID-19 that have found the drug to be ineffective or harmful to patients fighting the coronavirus.A&nbsp;&nbsp;COVID-19 who were given hydroxychloroquine and standard care for COVID-19 fared worse than those given standard care, while&nbsp;&nbsp;found that treatment with hydroxychloroquine didn't stop the progression of the disease.&nbsp;&nbsp;found no adverse or beneficial effects of the administration of hydroxychloroquine on coronavirus patients.&nbsp;&nbsp;was stopped early after patients developed fatal, irregular heartbeats.The World Health Organization announced on Monday that it was suspending a trial of hydroxychloroquine in treating COVID-19&nbsp;The president&nbsp;after consulting with the White House physician. He also claimed without evidence that thousands of essential workers, including doctors and nurses, were taking the drug to prevent contracting the disease caused by the coronavirus.Pressed then on why he was using an unproven therapeutic, Trump said: "Because I think it's good. I've heard a lot of good stories."

President Donald Trump said he had "just finished" taking a two-week course of the antimalarial drug&nbsp;, the medication he has vigorously promoted as a preventative or curative treatment for the&nbsp;, even as evidence piles up that the drug may cause more harm than good."Finished, just finished," he said in an&nbsp;that aired on Sinclair Broadcasting on Sunday"And by the way, I'm still here."The president again defended his decision to take, and talk about, the unproven treatment in the interview, amid Food and Drug Administration warnings against using the drug for...

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