Here is an eyeopener for the 'if it works , it will be a shoe in for Trump in November' society here in ET.
Top biologist to Fox News host: Unproven drug treatment hyped by Trump is ‘complete and utter nonsense’
Dr. William Haseltine, a biologist renowned for his work in confronting the HIV/AIDS epidemic, fighting anthrax and advancing our knowledge of the human genome, told Fox News on Monday that an
unproven drug treatment for the new coronavirus hyped by President Donald Trump was a “quack cure.””It’s sad to me that people are promoting that drug. We know already from studies at best it will have a very mild effect — at very best,” Haseltine told Fox News host Dana Perino about
hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug that Trump has repeatedly promoted against
the advice given by Dr. Anthony Fauci.
Perino then asked Haseltine about “stories of people saying that they’ve had this Lazarus effect by using this drug,” an apparent reference to
a claim made by her Fox News colleague Laura Ingraham.
Haseltine replied, “That is nonsense — complete and utter nonsense. And, in any situation, there are always going to be people who promote one kind of quack cure or another, and there are Lazarus effects. In every epidemic I’ve ever looked at, it’s always the case.”
Haseltine himself told Salon last month that Trump bears a considerable amount of blame for the extent to which the pandemic has ravaged America.