Tue Oct 3, 2023 – 4:28 pm EDT
ROCHESTER, Minnesota (LifeSiteNews) — The prestigious Mayo Clinic scrubbed a web page conceding that the drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) can be used to treat COVID-19, after a Trump administration alum called attention to the admission.
Hydroxychloroquine is an FDA-approved medication with a range of human applications, primarily for malaria, such that it is included on the World Health Organization’s Model List of Essential Medicines. In the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, scientists began researching its potential applications in treating the new virus, a development that was quickly promoted by then-President Donald Trump. The mere fact that Trump touted HCQ’s potential turned it into a political lightning rod, sparking years of false media stories, insistence that the drug is ineffective for COVID, and even penalties for doctors who have prescribed it.
On September 24, former Trump administration director of the Office of Trade & Manufacturing Policy Peter Navarro posted a link on X/Twitter to a Mayo web page that at the time contained the statement, “Hydroxychloroquine may be used to treat coronavirus (COVID-19) in certain hospitalized patients.”
From Mayo Clinic website grudging admission of glaring truth: “Hydroxychloroquine may
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