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Drug promoted by Trump as a 'game changer' increasingly linked to deaths
For two months, President Trump repeatedly pitched hydroxychloroquine as a safe and effective treatment for coronavirus, asking would-be patients “What the hell do you have to lose?”
Growing evidence shows that, for many, the answer is their lives.
Clinical trials, academic research and scientific analysis indicate that the danger of the Trump-backed drug is a significantly increased risk of death for certain patients. Evidence showing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating covid-19 has been scant. Those two developments pushed the Food and Drug Administration to warn against the use of hydroxychloroquine outside of a hospital setting last month, just weeks after it approved an emergency use authorization for the drug.
Growing evidence shows that, for many, the answer is their lives.
Clinical trials, academic research and scientific analysis indicate that the danger of the Trump-backed drug is a significantly increased risk of death for certain patients. Evidence showing the effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine in treating covid-19 has been scant. Those two developments pushed the Food and Drug Administration to warn against the use of hydroxychloroquine outside of a hospital setting last month, just weeks after it approved an emergency use authorization for the drug.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/drug-promoted-by-trump-as-coronavirus-game-changer-increasingly-linked-to-deaths/2020/05/15/85d024fe-96bd-11ea-9f5e-56d8239bf9ad_story.html
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... Tucker Carlson interviewed a charlatan, falsely claiming to be closely affiliated with Stanford's medical team, who claimed it was a 100% cure in their studies.
Trump is a TV-watching idiot, getting information from "sources" like Fox News, so Fox deserves some blame for this crime too.
Without Fox, we probably wouldn't have Agent Orange in the White House in the first place.
Saw a thread in here earlier about another supposed "cure" (a vaccine this time) just around the corner, which Fox News reported as an "exclusive" by them.
Pieces of shit! 
It is just outrageous
