Colby Hall Slams Fox News Hosts Spreading ‘Dangerous’ Trump ‘Miracle Cure’ Theories On Hydroxychloroquine Debunked By New Study

Mediaite founding editor Colby Hall joined NewsNation anchor Connell McShane on Friday where he pointed out that the alleged cure to Covid-19 promoted by former President Donald Trump and Fox News actually had higher likelihood of killing you.

Throughout the pandemic, Trump along with various primetime hosts on Fox News promoted Hydroxychloroquine as a possible treatment against the virus. Hall noted that Fox employees told their viewers there was a cabal seeking to keep the drug out of the public’s hands.

However, a new scientific study found that there was an 11 percent increase in death linked to the prescription of hydroxychloroquine while treating Covid-19, according to data published in the latest issue of Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy.

Both Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity pushed the drug to their audience at the time as a legitimate treatment for the virus during the height of the pandemic. Hall shared his thoughts with McShane during a network interview on Friday.

Well, it’s tough to look back at that time. It was April-May of 2020. Early days of the pandemic. And we were all sort of freaking out about, thinking this was the worst case scenario. And you look back with hindsight. We made a lot of mistakes. We we learned we overreacted, perhaps, in hindsight at the time, we were treating it as the worst case scenario. But hydroxychloroquine became this very sort of political topic. Former President Trump called it a miracle Covid cure. And many a very prominent primetime host on Fox News didn’t even promote it, they said that there was some sort of cabal, this conspiracy to keep it out of the public’s hands.

And what this, what this data shows, this research shows, is that that it actually increased the mortality rate by 11%. So taking the hydroxy actually was more dangerous, according to this data. Now it wasn’t necessarily causal. The hydroxy didn’t lead to the deaths directly. But, you know, listening to Trump and the Fox News partners were saying at the time, it’s really bad for your health.

One of the few anchors to push back on the Hydroxychloroquine hysteria at the time was Neil Cavuto who told his audience the drug “will kill you” if you are in a risky population.

Hall and McShane made note of Cavuto’s comments with Hall adding he “was a real hero in that time because he was the one sort of person talking common sense.”

Watch the clip above via NewsNation