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Hydroxychloroquine is a poor coronavirus treatment but a perfect parable for our times – ABC News
Thanks to social media, the anti-malarial drug is no longer a potential COVID-19 treatment but an ideological position.
The group had all the trappings of medical authority.
Wearing white coats as they stood with serious faces in front of the US Supreme Court earlier this week,they called themselves “America’s Frontline Doctors”.
In the video of their press conference, which was livestreamedon Facebook, the group promoted a familiar but controversial narrative: that the drug hydroxychloroquine could help treat COVID-19.
They made their claims despite large scientific studies showing the drug doesn’t benefit pe…
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