March 24, 2020
WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY:
People are dying after self-medicating with unproven COVID-19 drug promoted by Trump (The Week, 3/23/20)
President Trump has touted the decades-old anti-malaria drug chloroquine and its less-toxic cousin hydroxychloroquine as promising treatments for the COVID-19 coronavirus in press briefings and on Twitter, despite warnings from top federal health officials that the drugs aren't approved to fight COVID-19 and could have harmful side effects. The publicity has led to a run on the drugs, leaving people who use it to treat lupus and arthritis unable to fill their prescriptions. There have also been deaths.
Posted by Orrin Judd at March 24, 2020 12:00 AM