Drug pushed by Mariannette Miller-Meeks “failed in several recent clinical trials and doctors say they can cause serious heart problems.”
After months of headlines about the drug’s ineffectiveness and connection to worsened health outcomes, the FDA today withdrew an emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine – an anti-malarial drug touted by four-time IA-02 candidate Mariannette Miller-Meeks and her Washington Republican backers as a coronavirus cure.
The FDA’s move puts even more pressure on Miller-Meeks to finally apologize for peddling hydroxychloroquine to her Twitter followers, despite evidence that the drug caused “more deaths” in coronavirus patients. Asked earlier this spring whether her promotion of the drug was politically motivated, Miller-Meeks dodged the question, doubling down on her position.
On the campaign trail, Miller-Meeks has used her background as a former Iowa Public Health director as a talking point on the campaign trail. Yet her refusal to withdraw her support for an unproven treatment begs the question: if Miller-Meeks puts politics ahead of patients during a global pandemic, how can Iowans trust her to put them ahead of partisanship in Washington?
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