Posted on 04/03/2020 1:51:23 PM PDT by Mount Athos
After repeatedly mocking President Trump for suggesting on March 19 that hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment for coronavirus, media organizations have begun acknowledging that the drug -- now approved for emergency use to treat coronavirus by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -- may be useful after all.
Journalists and top Democrats have beaten a similarly hasty retreat from their previous claims that Trump's ban on travel from China was both xenophobic and ineffective. But media outlets' misinformation on hydroxychloroquine was unique because it involved not simply policy disagreements but also suggestive medical advice and directives that could have dissuaded some from seeking certain treatments.
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, went from threatening doctors who prescribed the drug with "administrative action" to requesting that the federal government ship her state some.
"Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times," read a March 20 "analysis" by CNN's Stephen Collinson.
"Trump is giving people false hope of coronavirus cures. It’s all snake oil," read one Washington Post headline. Added the Post's editorial board: "Trump is spreading false hope for a virus cure"
USA Today's editorial board was similarly aggressive and mocking, writing, "Coronavirus treatment: Dr. Donald Trump peddles snake oil and false hope."
Salon called Trump's hope in the new treatment his "most dangerous flim-flam: False hope and quack advice."
The New Yorker pondered "The Meaning of Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Quackery,"
Michael Cohen, a Boston Globe columnist, urged networks to stop airing Trump's coronavirus press briefings because he was spreading "misinformation" about a potential cure.
NBC News complained, "Trump, promoting unproven drug treatments, insults NBC reporter at coronavirus briefing."
The New York Times' Kurt Eichenwald reported that a "Louisiana MD" on the "front lines of the COVID-19 fight" had told him that "Hydroxychloroquine doesn't work"
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You can bet that Cuomo and now Brooke Baldwin have already been given the drugs..the key is giving it early BEFORE you are in bad shape
[[[Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, went from threatening doctors who prescribed the drug with “administrative action” to requesting that the federal government ship her state some. ]]]
Another idiot. Worthy of a running mate to Bidet.
[[[You can bet that Cuomo and now Brooke Baldwin have already been given the drugs..the key is giving it early BEFORE you are in bad shape]]]
Exactly. They key is WHEN its administered. I’ve also heard recommendations that it is actually of prophylactic value.
Ingraham has the doctors on every night who are using it.
Yep, that’s when my doc is giving it to his COVID patients. It’s been doing well for them.
But Fauci is not impressed.
If it’s just a bullshitz drug, fine. I want a jar of tablets. Maybe 250 or so. It’s like my bag of grass and my bag of ammo. I don’t use it myself but I keep it around incase company shows up.
Joe will stroke out on those LOL
If American “journalists” were capable of embarrassment, they would never show their faces again.
nipping at his heels
it’s all they know how to do
Dont forget Amy Kloubacher’s husband..he went from coughing up blood to OMG ITS A MIRACLE HE’S ALL BETTER..want to guess what drug combo he was given in Minnesota
The Gerbilists are in a situation of their own making that deeply resembles that of that Sisyphus guy.
It turns out that the Chinese discovered that patients with RA and lupus weren’t getting sick. That was what pointed them towards HOCQ as a treatment/prophylaxis.
Oh sure now a few of their own have it and they want the drugs, GO FIGURE!!!
so we are all locked up
because few phd;s egos got rifled up
let us out
help the sick
A Greek pharma is providing 24 million doses of a chloroquine medicine to their hospitals TODAY for covid19 patient treatment. That should really help flatten their death rate curve.
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/permalink/39602.html
“Greek authorities treat ALL #COVID19 patients with #chloroquine, say death rates halved at 3% vs 6% worldwide, decided to extend to all medical personnel prophylactically.”
https://twitter.com/schneiderleonid/status/1245617236850556932
This is NOT necessarily true a patient Laura had on was at deaths door priest gave last rights they gave him the combo and in 4 hours he was off the ventilator next day he was released from hospital !!!!
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