{"id":42779,"date":"2020-05-19T02:39:45","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T02:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42779"},"modified":"2020-05-19T02:39:45","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T02:39:45","slug":"medics-alarmed-at-trump-taking-unpoven-drug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42779","title":{"rendered":"Medics alarmed at Trump taking &#8216;unpoven drug&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=hydroxychloroquin%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-42780\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/90.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I would be alarmed along with many doctors about Donald Trump taking a drug that hasn&#8217;t been proven to perform the miracles he keeps touting.<\/p>\n<p>Except for this little thing: I don&#8217;t believe that the Liar in Chief is actually taking hydroxychloroquine, the drug he&#8217;s been touting as a potential cure for the COVID-19 virus that has killed more than 90,000 Americans.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2020\/05\/18\/trump-hydroxychlrorquine-health-experts-267066\">He dropped that bomb<\/a> today during a press availability. The first reaction was shock and amazement that the White House medical staff would give its tacit permission for Trump take the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the skepticism that Trump is actually taking the drug. You can count me as one of them.<\/p>\n<p>It wouldn&#8217;t surprise me in the least to learn that this is just one more gratuitous lie that came from Trump, a publicity stunt, the act of a carnival barker.<\/p>\n<p>The word, though, from many of the docs is that hydroxychloroquine might cause heart problems. Given that Trump is officially &#8220;morbidly obese,&#8221; well \u2026 we might have a serious problem.<\/p>\n<p>But only if he&#8217;s telling the truth.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=hydroxychloroquin%20%23pandemic%20%23coronavirus%20%23COVID19&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would be alarmed along with many doctors about Donald Trump taking a drug that hasn&#8217;t been proven to perform the miracles he keeps touting. Except for this little thing: I don&#8217;t believe that the Liar in Chief is actually taking hydroxychloroquine, the drug he&#8217;s been touting as a potential cure for the COVID-19 virus &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=42779\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Medics alarmed at Trump taking &#8216;unpoven drug&#8217;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[1424,9365,9261],"class_list":["post-42779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hydroxychloroquin","tag-pandemic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42781,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42779\/revisions\/42781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}