"Shortly after President Trump touted chloroquine as a potential cure for COVID-19, the media triumphantly reported that a man had died from taking homemade chloroquine due to Trump's recommendation.
It turned out that the man's wife fed him some fish tank cleaner.
She even partook of it with him, except that he died while she didn't.
As a dedicated murder mystery reader, I didn't blame Trump.
My suspicions were focused elsewhere.
It turns out that my instincts may have been right on the money.
Here's the story the drive-by media didn't tell you..."
...This NPR tweet is a stand-in for what all the media outlets were doing:
An Arizona man is died of a heart attack and his wife was hospitalized after the couple ingested a type of chloroquine, a chemical that has been hailed recently by President Trump as a possible "game changer" in the fight against novel coronavirus. https://t.co/ItBLKqac8B— NPR (@NPR) March 24, 2020
Even as that lie was racing around the world, the truth was struggling to get out. In this case, the truth was that the couple hadn't taken chloroquine at all.
Instead, they'd ingested a fish tank cleaner that had "chloroquine phosphate," a deadly chemical.
Even though a fish tank cleaner has nothing to do with a long recognized and legal anti-malarial drug, the media and the woman herself pushed the anti-Trump narrative.
Indeed, the woman explicitly condemned Trump: "Don't believe anything that the President says and his people."...
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