President Donald Trump and his allies continue to falsely tout the anti-malarial drug as a COVID-19 treatment, despite scant concrete evidence of its efficacy.
There is no clear evidence that the anti-malarial drug is effective as a COVID-19 treatment. Public health experts, including infectious diseases expert Dr. Anthony Fauci, leading the U.S. response to the COVID-19 crisis, have warned against promoting it because of the lack of widespread scientific consensus on the drug’s use as a COVID-19 treatment.
Yet Trump and his administration continue to claim otherwise, including by retweeting discredited videos. At his COVID-19 press conference Tuesday, he again promoted the drug by citing a conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed it could “cure” COVID-19.in an op-ed by cherry-picking statements from FauciNavarro ended the interview by referencing “the China virus.” Trump and his allies have repeatedly used the racist phrase and others to refer to COVID-19.
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