Trump’s Lies Can Kill You!

President Trump continued to hail an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment as a “cure” for COVID-19, telling conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh in a Friday interview that it sped his recovery from the disease and was “better than a vaccine.”  “I was not in great shape, but we have a medicine that healed me, that fixed me,” Trump said of the antibody “cocktail” manufactured by Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. “It’s a great medicine. I recovered immediately.”  Since being released on Monday from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he was treated for three days after being admitted with a high fever, chills and breathing problems, Trump has often pointed to the antibody therapy he undertook at the hospital as a “cure” for COVID-19. There is no known cure for the disease caused by exposure to the coronavirus, and the FDA has not, so far, approved the drug’s use for treating COVID-19.  Just as he had done with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine, which he took in May as a prophylactic against COVID-19, the president didn’t hesitate describing Regeneron’s “cocktail” in the most glowing possible terms.  “We have a cure. More than just a therapeutic, have a cure,” Trump said of the antibody treatment, adding, “This is better than a vaccine.”  Once again, if you are stupid enough to believe what comes from the mouth of Donald Trump, you could die!  It wasn’t that long ago that Trump claimed household bleach should be injected to cure Covid-19.  At the same time, while claiming he knew more than doctors on the matter he suggested that somehow, ultraviolet light administered internally, would cure Covid-19.  Of course preceding both of these “words of wisdom” was his claim about the effectiveness of antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine and the millions of dollars to purchase and stockpile this snake-oil cure.  It is a sad fact that people actually believe Trump knows about which he speaks.  There have been cases where people died from taking his advice on hydroxychloroquine and bleach.  As his reelection chances continue to diminish Trump’s desperation attempts are likely to produce more “words of wisdom” from an ignorant man.  Just remember Trump’s lies can kill you.  Believe him and take his medical advice at your own risk.