President Trump announced to little fanfare or global acclaim, that he had discovered a cure for COVID-19.
The world’s leaders took no notice, neither did global news gathering and reporting interests.
Neither did the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nor the Food and Drug Administration – which recently publicly stated that they have withdrawn their temporary emergency approval for experimental use of the prescription medication hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19, and stated officially that ” FDA has revoked the emergency use authorization (EUA) to use hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine to treat COVID-19 in certain hospitalized patients.”
President Trump has frequently touted hydroxychloroquine as a treatment and/or cure, and has frequently boasted that that he takes it himself to protect against COVID-19 infection.
Why did he do that?
Self interest.
On April 6 this year, the New York Times wrote that “Mr. Trump himself has a small personal financial interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes Plaquenil, the brand-name version of hydroxychloroquine.”
So when Trump announced that he’d found a cure for COVID-19, one might understand why he received little-to-no acclaim.
His solution and cure for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2 was utterly simple, however.
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