U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday after a meeting with Republican senators on Capitol Hill that using the drug hydroxychloroquine is an individual decision and “people will have to make up their own minds,” adding that he believes it gives him an “additional level of safety” from COVID-19. The drug has the potential to cause significant side effects in some patients and has not been shown to combat the new coronavirus.
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