Dr. Jame Todaro is another of the half dozen of the "America's Frontline Doctors". Lets' take a look at his bio.
Dr. James Todaro
Dr. James Todaro may have a degree in medicine, but he’s pretty far from the frontlines of the pandemic right now. In fact, he hasn’t seen a patient since 2018, according to his own biographies online. What’s Mr. Todaro doing these days? He’s
promoting bitcoin. Well, he’s promoting bitcoin and hydroxychloroquine, it would seem.
Todaro is largely credited with creating President Trump’s obsession with hydroxychloroquine in the first place, co-writing a paper on Google Docs with his friend and lawyer Gregory Rigano about the use of chloroquine in China on March 13. The paper went viral on right-wing Twitter and eventually made its way to Fox News, as often happens.
From
Vanity Fair:
On March 16, Elon Musk tweeted a link to the Google Doc, writing: “Maybe worth considering chloroquine for C19.” On March 18, right-wing websites Breitbart and The Blaze picked up the story. On March 19, Rigano went on Fox News and told Tucker Carlson that a chloroquine study had shown “a 100% cure rate against coronavirus.”
From there it was a short leap to the biggest bullhorn of all. That same day Donald Trump declared at a press conference that chloroquine was a possible “game changer” and that the FDA had approved it. “We’re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately,” he promised.
Trump would subsequently promote the drug whenever he had the opportunity, despite the fact that trials were still very early. The problem, of course, is that the drug doesn’t help in the ways that Todaro initially promised. (Gizmodo reached out to James Todaro for comment.)
https://gizmodo.com/who-are-americas-frontline-doctors-the-pro-trump-pro-1844528900