Who Said It: An Actual Doctor, Star Trek’s Dr. McCoy, or Donald Trump?

In terms of science, I don’t think we can definitively say [hydroxychloroquine] works … The data are really just at best suggestive. There have been cases that show there may be an effect and there are others to show there’s no effect.

I’M A DOCTOR, NOT A ENGINEER!

I’M A DOCTOR, NOT A COAL MINER!

I’M A DOCTOR, NOT A BRICKLAYER!

[Hydroxychloroquine] causes psychiatric symptoms, cardiac problems and a host of other bad side effects … There may be a role for it for some people, but to tell Americans, ‘You don’t have anything to lose,’ that’s not true. People certainly have something to lose by taking it indiscriminately.

I’M A DOCTOR, NOT AN ESCALATOR!

WHAT AM I, A DOCTOR—OR A MOON SHUTTLE CONDUCTOR?!

We caution hospitals, health systems, and individual practitioners that no medication has been FDA-approved for use in COVID-19 patients, and there is no incontrovertible evidence to support off-label use of medications for COVID-19. Stockpiling these medications—or depleting supplies with excessive, anticipatory orders—can have grave consequences for patients with conditions such as lupus or rheumatoid arthritis if the drugs are not available in the community.

MY NAME IS MCCOY! I’M A DOCTOR!

It’s a dangerous message for someone without a medical license to get up there and tell people to try [hydroxychloroquine]. You need to listen to physicians, people who understand science, before you go willy-nilly into the medicine cabinet.

We have purchased and we have stockpiled 29,000,000 pills of the hydroxychloroquine … What do you have to lose? What do you have to lose? And a lot of people are saying that when—and are taking it—if you’re a doctor, a nurse, a first responder, a medical person going into hospitals, they say taking it before the fact is good. But what do you have to lose? They say, take it. I’m not looking at it one way or the other—but we want to get out of this. If it DOES work, it would be a shame if we didn’t do it early! But we have some very good signs. So that’s hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin. And again, you have to go through your medical people, get the approval. But I’ve seen things that I sort of like! So what do I know? I’m not a doctor. I’m not a doctor.