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by tw000001 2210 days ago
>https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1241367239...

"...have a real chance of if being a game changer"

There is absolutely nothing incorrect about this post. And what's worse, while the media (and left leaning doctors) were amplifying papers like the OP, they ignored the positive studies and set back the entire pandemic effort by turning public opinion against a promising drug.

It is a dereliction of social duty for the media to act in such a dangerously partisan manner. They owe society better for the power that they are allowed to wield.

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That's dishonest to link a single tweet and act as though that's all the claims he's ever made about it. Here's a single press conference[1], which isn't nearly the extent of it, and doesn't include his claims he's taking it himself, but does include a "What do you have to lose?" argument.

[1] https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine...