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Coventina

(27,101 posts) Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:10 AM Apr 2020

Question about Trump's Miracle Drug Cure for COVID-19

From what I've seen on the news, the drug has serious side effects: like it messes with your heart and can kill you.

If people start dropping dead from this cure he's been actually TELLING PEOPLE TO TAKE, does he have any legal liability for that?

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Question about Trump's Miracle Drug Cure for COVID-19 (Original Post) Coventina Apr 2020 OP

I think, at this point, Trump could actually endorse arsenic as a cure and be untouched by the law. Girard442 Apr 2020 #1

He would do like Fox News Turbineguy Apr 2020 #2

It can only be used in select cases, not universally. 2naSalit Apr 2020 #3

Cytokine Storm Drahthaardogs Apr 2020 #4

Girard442

(6,069 posts)

1. I think, at this point, Trump could actually endorse arsenic as a cure and be untouched by the law.

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:14 AM

Apr 2020

Turbineguy

(37,317 posts)

2. He would do like Fox News

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:15 AM

Apr 2020

People shouldn't take medical advice from an entertainer.

2naSalit

(86,534 posts)

3. It can only be used in select cases, not universally.

Reply to Coventina (Original post)

Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:41 AM

Apr 2020

The only cases where it has shown improvement, I have heard several Dr.s* state this, would be in a patient whose immune system overreacts to the virus. Otherwise it can cause heart issues and even cause eye damage among other concerns.

* Dr. Fauci, Dr. Chopra, and a few whose names I don't recall who have been speaking up.

Drahthaardogs

(6,843 posts)

4. Cytokine Storm

Reply to 2naSalit (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 8, 2020, 11:48 AM

Apr 2020

It works for autoimmune disorders. Makes sense it would have an application here.

Otherwise... nothing

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