The RACGP has taken aim at Sky News host Rowan Dean after he claimed doctors should be free to choose to prescribe hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 cure or prevention. 

Mr Dean promoted hydroxychloroquine as a safe drug that has been shown to be effective against the virus in a segment on Outsiders – the news show he co-hosts.

“What have we got to lose by allowing doctors and patients to decide for themselves, without interfering politicians and bureaucrats, whether or not to take a drug that is safe?”, he said

“The consensus is it’s safe … in the correct doses and might well save your life.”