Amy Klobuchar Mocks Donald Trump for Hydroxychloroquine Use After Her Husband Was Treated With Antimalarial Drug
Newsweek, May 29, 2020

Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar is among the many critics of President Donald Trump who have openly mocked his decision to take controversial anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a preventive measure against COVID-19. But what Klobuchar hasn't widely discussed is that her husband also took the drug when he had the disease.

"They say that hydroxychloroquine can lead to hallucinations," Klobuchar posted on Twitter May 20, in response to a seemingly random tweet from the president about the Democratic primary several weeks after it had already ended with former Vice President Joe Biden as the presumptive nominee.

But Klobuchar's husband, John Bessler, is among patients who were prescribed hydroxychloroquine to treat severe symptoms after contracting COVID-19, she said in an April 7 interview with SiriusXM's Michael Smerconish that's received relatively little mainstream attention.

"I listened to the science there," she said. "I think that we have to listen to the science and you have to listen to your doctors with what is going to work in each individual situation."

She said about hydroxychloroquine specifically: "Sometimes you might have other conditions that make it so you can't take certain drugs. Sometimes your own condition with the virus wouldn't demand. I think people have to look at what works."


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