Shocking no one, it's reported that Donald Trump has a personal financial interest in the French company that makes the brand-name version of the drug.
What could go wrong?
When an Arizona couple mistook the malaria-fighting drug for a chemical used to clean fish tanks, it led to trouble. According to the, after hearing politicians and news anchors praising the drug, they opted to drink chloroquine phosphate — a similar-sounding chemical the couple in their 60s used to clean their koi pond.
“I saw it sitting on the back shelf and thought, ‘Hey, isn’t that the stuff they’re talking about on TV?’” the wife, who was not named, told“Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure,” the woman told NBC, per the . “Don’t take anything. Don’t believe anything. Don’t believe anything that the president says and his people … call your doctor.”The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has reported that the anecdotal evidence is encouraging but that more clinical trials are needed — and many are underway. Until those results are in, the
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