Maggie Haberman

thumb|Maggie Haberman in 2018 Maggie Lindsy Haberman (born October 30, 1973) is an American journalist. She is a White House correspondent for The New York Times and a political analyst for CNN. Earlier in her career, she worked as a political reporter for The New York Post, the New York Daily News, and Politico. Quotes President Trump doubled down Sunday on his push for the use of an anti-malarial drug against the coronavirus, issuing medical advice that goes well beyond scant evidence of the drug’s effectiveness as well as the advice of doctors and public health experts. Mr. Trump’s recommendation of hydroxychloroquine, for the second day in a row at a White House briefing, was a striking example of his brazen willingness to distort and outright defy expert opinion and scientific evidence when it does not suit his agenda. "Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine", The New York Times (April 5, 2020), co-written with Michael Crowley and Katie Thomas. Standing alongside two top public health officials who have declined to endorse his call for widely administering the drug, Mr. Trump suggested that he was speaking on gut instinct and acknowledged that he had no expertise on the subject. Saying that the drug is “being tested now,” Mr. Trump said that “there are some very strong, powerful signs” of its potential, although health experts say that the data is extremely limited and that more study of the drug’s effectiveness against the coronavirus is needed. [...] Mr. Trump, who once predicted that the virus might “miraculously” disappear by April because of warm weather, and who has rejected scientific consensus on issues like climate change, was undaunted by skeptical questioning. “What do you have to lose?” Mr. Trump asked, for the second day in a row, saying that terminally ill patients should be willing to try any treatment that has shown some promise. "Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine", The New York Times (April 5, 2020), co-written with Michael Crowley and Katie Thomas. Even as Mr. Trump has promoted the drug, which is also often prescribed for patients with lupus, it has created rifts within his own coronavirus task force. And while many hospitals have chosen to use hydroxychloroquine in a desperate attempt to treat dying patients who have few other options, others have noted that it carries serious risks. In particular, the drug can cause a heart arrhythmia that can lead to cardiac arrest. "Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine", The New York Times (April 5, 2020), co-written with Michael Crowley and Katie Thomas. Hydroxychloroquine has not been proved to work against Covid-19 in any significant clinical trials. A small trial by Chinese researchers made public last week found that it helped speed the recovery in moderately ill patients, but the study was not peer-reviewed and had significant limitations. Earlier reports from France and China have drawn criticism because they did not include control groups to compare treated patients with untreated ones, and researchers have called the reports anecdotal. Without controls, they said, it is impossible to determine whether the drugs worked. But Mr. Trump on Sunday dismissed the notion that doctors should wait for further study. "Ignoring Expert Opinion, Trump Again Promotes Use of Hydroxychloroquine", The New York Times (April 5, 2020), co-written with Michael Crowley and Katie Thomas. External links Maggie Haberman on Twitter On hiatus: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/20/sunday-review/maggie-haberman-twitter-donald-trump.html Maggie Haberman: Why I Needed to Pull Back From Twitter July 20, 2018 The New York Times July 26, 2018 ABC News interview Hugh Hewitt interview New Yorker David Remnick interview April 20, 2017 interview on NPR by Terry Gross January 23, 2019 interview on NY1 by Errol Louis Appearances on C-SPAN Category:1973 births Category:Living people Category:Journalists from New York City Category:Jews from the United States Category:Political authors Category:Non-fiction authors from the United States Category:Pulitzer Prize winners Category:Women journalists from the United States Category:Women born in the 1970s Category:Women authors from the United States