Hydroxychloroquine is trending again. It's still no cure for COVID-19

Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug used to treat autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis for decades, is not a cure for COVID-19. A swath of studies, some less than a week old and published in prestigious scientific journal Nature, have demonstrated the drug does not have substantial antiviral activity. And as more data rolls in from human clinical trials, hydroxychloroquine keeps coming up short. Very short. It doesn't protect against COVID-19 and it doesn't cure it, either.

So why is it back in the news again?

It appears it's trending largely because a series of viral videos published by right-wing publication Breitbart are being widely shared across social media, particularly on Facebook and Twitter.

On Monday, a contingent of physicians, clad in white coats and calling themselves "America's Frontline Doctors" held a summit on the steps of the US Supreme Court in Washington. The summit was organized by the right-wing "Tea Party Patriots Foundation" and is intended to run for two days.

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Dr. Andrew Breitbart preferred mass ingestion of alcohol and cocaine.