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Howard in reply to @Oliver Schick

I didn't say they twisted the facts, I said they twisted the reporting; Uber calls it well.

I'm pretty sure his remarks to the press didn't say "go drink aquarium cleaner and cure yourself of coronavirus" which is the impression that the Graun article gives.

tl;dr anyone who skims the headline and swallows what they read hook line and sinker will leave the article believing that these guys died not because they went out bought poison and drank it, but because Trump mistakenly named or believed this poison is a cure ( because he's an idiot! Of course!) and they were innocents simply following Trump's erroneous advice.

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Lebowski in reply to @Howard

Trump lied and said that the FDA had approved the use of an anti-malaria medication called chloroquine to treat patients infected with coronavirus.

'Even after the FDA chief clarified that the drug still needs to be tested for that use, Trump overstated the drug’s potential upside in containing the virus.'

I think this is very news worthy.

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Howard in reply to @Lebowski

Yes! It is a story. It’s a different story.

The drug is being tested right now. As are many others.

But if you went out and bought it, took it, it probably wouldn’t kill you, regardless of its efficacy as a Corona ‘cure’, unlike aquarium cleaner.

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