He's desperate for any distraction that helps him dodge the fact he wasted 5 to 6 weeks before giving Americans any reason to believe Covid-19 posed a threat to their health:
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/06/trump-hydroxychloroquine-fact-check/
"Trump: What do you have to lose? And a lot of people are saying that, and are taking it. If you’re a doctor or a nurse, a first responder, a medical person going into hospitals, they say taking it before the fact is good.
"STAT: Given the surge in eBay sales of chloroquine phosphate, and the anecdotal reports in Arizona and Nigeria of patients poisoning themselves by self-administering chloroquine formulations, there’s concern throughout the public health community that Trump’s exhortations to try the drug could do more harm than good. Of course, Trump isn’t encouraging self-medication, telling Americans instead to “go through your medical people.”
"So what do the medical people say? Jeremy Faust, an emergency physician at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, has attempted to caution against the idea of hydroxychloroquine as a preventive medication.
He tweeted Sunday: 'Patients with lupus, arthritis, other conditions are *already* on hydroxychloroquine. And we are diagnosing them with Covid-19 LEFT AND RIGHT.'"
He's liable to take another huge hit today when UE numbers are released. If he opens the economy prematurely, will we see an "October Surprise" that results in another "Goldwater moment" for the GOP?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldwater_1964_presidential_campaign
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