"In their constant effort to take down Trump and debunk everything he says, the media has been on a mission to prove that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, which some doctors and patients are reporting can effectively fight off the Chinese virus ravaging the world, is dangerous.
It started with MSN reporting that two grams of the drug President Trump wants to fast-track can kill you.
Virus Drug Touted by Trump, Musk Can Kill In Just Two Grams
The drug touted by the U.S. President Donald Trump as a possible line of treatment against the coronavirus comes with severe warnings in China and can kill in dosages as little as two grams.
msn.com
Donald Trump Jr. had the best response to that claim, since two grams of the drug would be a massive overdose.
You can overdose on anything.
But the worst fear-mongering happened on Monday when Dena Grayson, a television doctor, tweeted out the worst fake news I've ever seen.
She claimed that "a man DIED & his wife is in ICU after they ingested #chloroquine, one of the anti-malarials that @realDonaldTrump touted."
She claimed that "a man DIED & his wife is in ICU after they ingested #chloroquine, one of the anti-malarials that @realDonaldTrump touted."
Except that's not what happened.
The husband and wife, both in their 60s, ingested a chloroquine phosphate formulation that is used to clean fish tanks, Banner Health hospital said in a press release.
The husband and wife, both in their 60s, ingested a chloroquine phosphate formulation that is used to clean fish tanks, Banner Health hospital said in a press release.
They were not prescribed medicine safe for human consumption, they ate a substance approved for aquarium maintenance...
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