Nigeria records chloroquine poisoning after Trump endorses it for coronavirus treatment

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Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)Health officials in Nigeria have issued a warning over chloroquine after they said three people in the country overdosed on the drug, in the wake of President Trump's comments about using it to treat coronavirus.

A Lagos state official told CNN that three people were hospitalized in the city after taking the drug. Officials later issued a statement cautioning against using chloroquine for Covid-19 treatment.

US President Donald Trump claimed at a White House briefing last week that the Food and Drug Administration had approved the "very powerful" drug chloroquine to
treat coronavirus.

"It's shown very encouraging -- very, very encouraging early results. And we're going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that's where the FDA has been so great. They -- they've gone through the approval process; it's been approved. And they did it -- they took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we're going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states," Trump said.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/23/africa/chloroquine-trump-nigeria-intl/index.html

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1. I have read that there are effective treatments for COVID-19. Chloroquine is one treatment

that I have extensive information stored for. It's no surprise that anybody who self-medicates
without proper medical supervision is a fool. Don't be a fool.

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2. trump is a danger to the nation with his misinformation on chloroquine.

Overdosing on chloroquine can be poisonously lethal. This drug is more easily accessible on the African continent because it's widely used to combat malaria, in the right dosages however.

Which is why that continent has far fewer coronavirus cases than others. Some have overdosed to protect themselves after hearing reports of trump's premature lies of the drugs effectiveness on the virus.