Political leaning influences American doctors' beliefs about COVID treatments-- study

Political leaning influences doctors' beliefs about COVID treatments, study finds CIDRAP

Left or right political leaning in the United States predicts both physician and patient beliefs about COVID-19 treatments, with the two groups perceiving information differently, according to a study to be published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

... conservative physicians were about five times more likely than their liberal and moderate peers to say that they would treat a hypothetical COVID-19 patient with hydroxychloroquine, which has no scientific evidence to support its use for this indication.

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