US coronavirus live: Trump begins Sunday night White House briefing
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When asked why he is promoting hydroxychloroquine, an unproven treatment for coronavirus, Trump said again, “What do they have to lose?”
“We don’t have time to take a couple years to test it out,” he said.
Despite saying there is a “glimmer of hope” in the fight against coronavirus, Trump agreed with warnings from the US surgeon general who said Americans will face a “Pearl Harbor moment” in the next week.
“Hopefully we can get this over with,” he said. “This is a horrible thing for the whole world, we are one of 182 countries affected by this.”
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