[ April 23, 2024 ]
More media malfeasance. As President Trump wages war on the coronavirus, the Democrat media complex wages war on Trump.
After mocking Trump for promoting hydroxychloroquine, journalists acknowledge it might treat coronavirus
By Gregg Re | Fox News April 4, 2020:
VP Pence: FDA approving ‘off label’ use for Chloroquine, no barrier to access
Dr. Oz asks Vice President Mike Pence what the U.S. is doing to accelerate clinical coronavirus trials and if the administration plans to approve ‘off label’ use of Chloroquine medication
After repeatedly mocking President Trump for suggesting on March 19 that hydroxychloroquine could be an effective treatment for coronavirus, media organizations have begun acknowledging that the drug — now approved for emergency use to treat coronavirus by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) — may be useful after all.
Journalists and top Democrats have beaten a similarly hasty retreat from their previous claims that Trump’s ban on travel from China was both xenophobic and ineffective. But media outlets’ misinformation on hydroxychloroquine was unique because it involved not simply policy disagreements but also suggestive medical advice and directives that could have dissuaded some from seeking certain treatments.
“Malaria Drug Helps Virus Patients Improve, in Small Study,” The New York Times reported this week, adding: “A group of moderately ill people were given hydroxychloroquine, which appeared to ease their symptoms quickly, but more research is needed.”
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, went from threatening doctors who prescribed the drug with “administrative action” to requesting that the federal government ship her state some. Other state leaders have followed suit, including Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak, also a Democrat.
It wasn’t always considered acceptable to use that kind of optimistic rhetoric, however.
“Trump peddles unsubstantiated hope in dark times,” read a March 20 “analysis” by CNN’s Stephen Collinson. Saying Trump was “adopting the audacity of false hope” and embracing “premature optimism,” Collinson charged that “there’s no doubt he overhyped the immediate prospects for the drug” because the FDA refused to give a timeline on approving the drug to treat coronavirus.
@CNN, as ever, leads the media in jumping the shark. pic.twitter.com/zeXYk2kyNa
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 1, 2020
“Trump is giving people false hope of coronavirus cures. It’s all snake oil,” read one Washington Post headline. Added the Post’s editorial board: “Trump is spreading false hope for a virus cure — and that’s not the only damage.”
“The most promising answer to the pandemic will be a vaccine, and researchers are racing to develop one,” the paper insisted, although it is not staffed with medical experts. “Mr. Trump’s inappropriate hype has already led to hoarding of hydroxychloroquine and diverted supplies from people with other maladies who need it. His comments are raising false hopes. Rather than roll the dice on an unproven therapy, let’s deposit our trust in the scientists.”
USA Today’s editorial board was similarly aggressive and mocking, writing, “Coronavirus treatment: Dr. Donald Trump peddles snake oil and false hope.”
FISHY: WOMAN WHO SAID SHE DRANK FISH TANK CLEANER BECAUSE OF TRUMP ACTUALLY HATES TRUMP
“There are no approved therapies or drugs to treat COVID-19 yet, but the president hypes preliminary chloroquine trials at White House briefing and unproven remedies on Twitter,” the paper wrote, just days before the FDA would approve the drug.
Communications strategist Drew Holden flagged these and numerous other examples of media misinformation on the matter in a lengthy Twitter thread.
Salon, Holden noted, called Trump’s hope in the new treatment his “most dangerous flim-flam: False hope and quack advice.”
President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)President Donald Trump speaks about the coronavirus in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Wednesday, April 1, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
The New Yorker pondered “The Meaning of Donald Trump’s Coronavirus Quackery,” observing that Trump’s “pronouncements are a reminder, if one was needed, of his scorn for rigorous science, even amid the worst pandemic to hit the U.S. in a century.”
Michael Cohen, a Boston Globe columnist, urged networks to stop airing Trump’s coronavirus press briefings because he was spreading “misinformation” about a potential cure.
And, NBC News complained, “Trump, promoting unproven drug treatments, insults NBC reporter at coronavirus briefing.”
The New York Times’ Kurt Eichenwald reported that a “Louisiana MD” on the “front lines of the COVID-19 fight” had told him that “Hydroxychloroquine doesn’t work” and that “amateurs who dont [sic] understand research” were driving up demand for the drug. (“Count me skeptical of your source here, Kurt,” Holden wrote.)
@kurteichenwald. Shocker. Count me skeptical of your source here, Kurt. pic.twitter.com/MjD96LWjYS
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) April 1, 2020
Vox mocked Trump’s “new favorite treatment” for the drug, and said the evidence is “lacking” that it works.
Meanwhile, it has emerged that the Arizona woman who said she and her husband drank fish-tank cleaner to ward off coronavirus has donated heavily to Democrats and acknowledges she’s not a Trump supporter — despite news reports that she ingested the dangerous drug because she trusted what she thought was the president’s advice.
The 61-year-old woman, whose first name is Wanda but has asked for her full identity to be withheld, survived the ordeal. Her 68-year-old husband, Gary, did not. Wanda has said that she and her husband each took a “teaspoon” of the fish-tank cleaner; medical toxicology results and a police investigation were pending.
“I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?'” Wanda told NBC News, referring to the chloroquine phosphate in her fish-tank cleaner.
DEMOCRATS CALL CHINA TRAVEL BAN XENOPHOBIC, NOW CHANGE THEIR TUNEOn March 19, Trump had touted anecdotal evidence that the antimalarial drug chloroquine could be used as a treatment for coronavirus during a White House briefing, calling it a possible “game-changer.” In fact, the Food and Drug Administration has approved the drug on an emergency basis, even though various media reports had mocked Trump’s suggestion.
Samaritan’s Purse sets up field hospital in Central Park as coronavirus cases rise in NYCVideoHowever, the woman and her husband ingested the additive chloroquine phosphate, which has been used in aquariums to kill microscopic organisms that might harm fish and other aquatic animals.
Several media organizations that confused the chloroquine medication with chloroquine phosphate later issued corrections. The New York Times, though, all but accused Trump of recommending the same substance in the fish-tank cleaner.
Nevertheless, Wanda drew national attention by claiming that Trump had suggested she consume the fish-tank cleaner with her husband, and that she did so to avoid “getting sick.”
“My advice is don’t believe anything that the president says and his people because they don’t know what they’re talking about,” Wanda told NBC News’ Vaughn Hillyard.
WHAT IS CHLOROQUINE?Federal Election Commission (FEC) records reviewed by The Washington Free Beacon revealed numerous other recipients of Wanda’s cash, including Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) and the pro-choice EMILY’s List.
Additionally, Fox News has reviewed a Facebook page apparently belonging to Wanda, which was first identified by the Twitter user Techno Fog.
“Your psycho prez is in [t]own, are you going to see him?” Wanda wrote on Facebook on Feb. 19, by way of wishing a friend a happy birthday. Trump was in town at a rally in Phoenix, Ariz., on that day.
Wanda has not replied to multiple requests for comment by Fox News. She deleted her Facebook page after Fox News attempted to contact her there.
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9 Comments
4 years ago
Yes, and a new global doctor poll shows 34% and 32% are already using and liking the chloroquine and azithromycin for Covid-19.
“Hydroxychloroquine Rated ‘Most Effective Therapy’ By Doctors For Coronavirus: Global Survey”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/04/hydroxychloroquine-rated-effective-therapy-doctors-coronavirus-global-survey/
4 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Meanwhile, Fauci yesterday: “I’ve looked at all the models. I’ve spent a lot of time on the models. They don’t tell you anything. You can’t really rely upon models,” Dr. Fauci told other task force members this week, according to two officials with direct knowledge of the exchange.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/fauci-you-cant-rely-on-the-models-too-many-variables
4 years ago
I freely confess: I am so furious it’s definitely not good. Fortunately, I am law-abiding. The center must hold for goodness sake. The fact that I feel like this is alarming to me because derangement is not only out there, it’s in high office. The center MUST hold. If it does not, suicides are not going to be anyone’s chief concern.
4 years ago
If Democrats wanted to lick this, they wouldn’t be harping on Mike Lindell whose MyPillow.com is now ramping up production of surgical masks, for doctors, nurses, EMT’s and other medical personnel; or on Franklin Graham for his services for treating sick patients (ditto for other Christian-based care providers); and Gov. Cuomo would have responded to Remington’s sincere offer to make ventilators for use in hospitals, and not brush them off as he is now due to his notoriously anti-gun politics.
We know they’re not serious about combatting this – and conversely, are out to drag this out as long as possible for purely political purposes – when Governors ban any and all treatments for Coronavirus to be used on sick people in their states.
4 years ago
Reply to
Patriotic American
Yeah, that Democrat Bill Maher said Corona might be good; and he even previously said “let the recession come”.
I wish that worthless party nothing but failure politically.
4 years ago
4 years ago
For sure garbage peddlers .
4 years ago
You can bet the CCP knew this anti-malaria drug suppresses the CCP Virus, but did they tell us? Of course not, they did everything in their lexicon of evil to stop its widespread adoption and will continue to do so.
4 years ago
I would suggest that anyone needing medical advise on the Corona virus should phone “Journalists” at CNN or any other preferably Trump hating Lefty media. They seem to be the “experts in everything”.
