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From that first article: >national authorities including French government decided to deploy chloroquine as the medicine to treat COVID19. All based on Trump’s
by blhack 7y ago
From that first article:
>national authorities including French government decided to deploy chloroquine as the medicine to treat COVID19. All based on Trump’s tweets which in turn was based on Fox News promotion of this study by Raoult.
This is absurd, and is insulting to every health official in any of the countries using this treatment. The idea that the French government is taking medical advice from Trumps twitter, or from Fox News is ridiculous. Moreso when the doctor and researcher they are talking about is a French citizen and infectious disease expert.
- wyxuan 7y agoI think they the article is implying that because of all the attention that Trump gave the article, they decided to put it on the fore front of their approach. And also raoult is a major liar. If you look at the study he omits a lot of information and refuses to release 14 day endpoint data. Plus he's been a co-author to several papers which have had their results manipulated [1] https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-didier-raoult-to-save-the-world-from-covid-19/ https://forbetterscience.com/2020/03/26/chloroquine-genius-d...
- blhack 7y agoDo you think this implication is realistic: A French infectious disease expert publishes a paper which outlines the results of a small clinical trial and which is in agreement with anecdotal experiences in China, and with evidence gathered in vitro. The French authorities ignore their expert until Donald Trump posts about it on twitter, which they take as medical advice. That seems insulting to France, and also like complete fantasy. In fact I would go so far as to say it sounds like something somebody with an obvious agenda would say.