In our poll with Morning Consult, fewer than one-in-four voters support using hydroxychloroquine to treat the coronavirus, and only 11% say they're likely to take it themselves
, out Tuesday, only 23 percent of registered voters said they support using hydroxychloroquine to treat coronavirus, down from 29 percent who supported the therapy in April.The poll, which was conducted after Trump’s revelation last week, found that almost three-quarters of voters were aware of that news.
“President Trump’s disclosure of taking hydroxychloroquine made a splash, with news reaching a sizable majority of voters. Still, the renewed buzz around the antimalarial drug didn’t result in increased support for its use as a treatment for coronavirus,” said Tyler Sinclair, vice president of Morning Consult.
The president initially emerged as a champion of hydroxychloroquine early on in the pandemic, boosted by allies in conservative media. Then, last week, Trump said he'd made the decision to take the drug himself as a prophylactic — because, he claimed, “what do you have to lose?”Just 11 percent of Democrats and 2-in-10 independents said they supported the treatment.
The survey was also partially conducted after one of the largest observational studies of the drug to date hydroxychloroquine treats coronavirus and was linked to increased rates of mortality and cardiac issues among hospitalized Covid-19 patients.
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