evidence: They were very old, almost dead," Trump told reporters Tuesday. "It was a Trump enemy statement." [...] "The only negative I’ve heard," he added, "was the study where they gave it -- was it the VA? — with, you know, people that aren’t big Trump fans." There is no evidence that the study, funded by grants from the NIH and the University of Virginia, was influenced by anyone’s opinions about Trump. The retrospective analysis was conducted by researchers at several universities and looked at the impact of hydroxychloroquine in patients at veterans’ hospitals across the nation. It found no benefit and more deaths among those given hydroxychloroquine versus standard care alone. That work was posted online for researchers and has not been reviewed by other scientists, but a larger observational study that looked at the outcomes of nearly 100,000 patients in 671 hospitals on six continents published Friday sounded similar alarms.