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    A chemist displays hydroxychloroquine tablets in Mumbai, India, on May 19, 2020. Trump's previous endorsement of hydroxychloroquine catalyzed a tremendous shift in the country, spurring the world’s largest producer of the drug to make much more of it. (Rafiq Maqbool/AP/CP)

    The incalculable rise of hydroxychloroquine

    Trump endorsing hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19, offers a stark lesson in how science, social media, politics and global supply chains have collided during the coronavirus crisis

    Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu rises in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Friday, May 6, 2016. Conservative health critic Gladu says the Liberal government needs to do more to ensure that cannabis products available online are not attractive to young people. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

    A poem for the MP for Sarnia-Lambton and her recent hydroxychloroquine endorsement

    Tabatha Southey: Marilyn Gladu seems to think this medicine could easily get the Canadian economy back on its feet again. How to get through to her? Through poetry, of course.

    A drugstore employee in Kolkata, India holds a strip of hydroxychloroquine on day eight of the country's nationwide lockdown (Samir Jana/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

    These drugs are being tested as coronavirus treatments. Do any of them work?

    As the race to find a vaccine goes on, researchers are trying potential treatments on coronavirus patients. Some show promise, some not so much.