The president told reporters that he continues to favor an unproven combination of drugs as a treatment for COVID-19 because he wants to keep people from using ventilators.
On Friday, the federal government's top virologist, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Director Dr. Anthony Fauci, specifically warned what further studies are needed to determine whether the drugs touted by the president will work against COVID-19
But during Saturday's White House press briefing, Trump stepped up to the microphone unprompted to reference the drug combination again just moments after Fauci addressed a reporter's question about the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths expected this coming week. During his initial attempt to answer the question, he said the federal government would"try" to ensure that states with a large number of cases had adequate numbers of ventilators"wherever we possibly can" -- but suggested that leaders in states such as New York were responsible for shortages because they"had chances of stockpiling a lot of ventilators," long before the emergence of SARS-CoV-2 but didn't.
"One of the reasons that I keep talking about hydroxychloroquine is that the question that nobody ever asks, and the question that I most hate the answer to, is what happens if you do have a ventilator," Trump said.
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