- Impeachment Moves Forward to Nowhere, by Peggy Nooan, PatriotPost.US, January 18. 2020.
3. In the disaster movie “Airport 1975,” a flight attendant takes over the controls of a Boeing 747 airliner after the pilots are killed when a small plane crashes into their cockpit. A 747 pilot on the ground instructs her by radio how to keep the plane circling. A passenger on the plane hears what happened from another flight attendant. “You mean the stewardess is flying the plane?!” He gulps a glass of whisky.
That’s how I felt last week listening to President Trump, whose background is real estate and not medicine, promoting a malaria drug to end the coronavirus pandemic. He claimed that the drug, called chloroquine phosphate, or chloroquine, “was approved very, very quickly” and “could be a game changer.”
In the middle of a frightening pandemic, Trump may have misled the American people about a cure. Indeed, the FDA promptly pointed out that chloroquine is not approved as a treatment for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, and that, before any such approval, clinical trials will first have to demonstrate its safety and effectiveness for that use. Such trials may require a year to 15 months, or even longer, and involve hundreds and even thousands of patients.
Trump’s exaggerated claim was actually dangerous. After listening to him, a husband and wife in Arizona who thought they had COVID-19 symptoms ingested a substance similar to chloroquine. The husband died and the wife barely survived. Doctors and health organizations around the world, as though they didn’t have enough on their hands, had to issue warnings not to self-medicate for COVID-19.
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