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Getafix’s Covid potion

Trump haters who sneer at a potential cure don’t have to take it

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

28 March 2020

9:00 AM

Man Dies After Taking Chemical in Coronavirus Treatment Touted by Trump, blared the headline in Time magazine, as if it was the President’s fault. The elderly man had swallowed an aquarium additive made of chloroquine phosphate, presumably hoping it would have the same effect as the anti-malarial medication also made of chloroquine that is being used in China, South Korea, France, Italy and the US to treat patients with Covid-19.

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