Bloomberg ‘News’ gets slammed for false headline about deadly chloroquine

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Bloomberg put up a false headline titled, Virus Drug Touted by Trump, Musk Can Kill With Just Two Gram Dose, saying China reports chloroquine kills with just two grams. The dosage is milligrams, not grams, but they left that out of their story. Instead, they claimed it’s a killer, tying it to the President and Elon Musk, who they never forgave for donating to House Republicans years back.

The President has been trying to cheer Americans up as he should by explaining there are really positive results to report on the use of the drug chloroquine with coronavirus patients.

The drug is approved in the United States for malaria and rheumatoid arthritis, but Bloomberg kept quoting the scare tactics from China, saying it’s not approved here. It’s not approved for coronavirus but doctors can prescribe it.

Bloomberg then admits it is the treatment China uses, just not in that large a dose. The headline didn’t match the article.

It is really meant to be a nasty attack on Trump, tying the treatment to him. They don’t want Americans to be calmed in any way. Now, if anyone dies after taking the drug, he will be blamed. Neato.

Bloomberg is very dishonest. No one is prescribing in grams. Bloomberg is getting mileage out of this lie by retweeting it with different hysterical headlines like — two people in Nigeria died because they listened to Trump. That story came via China.

Many do see it for what it is.

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Butch M.
5 years ago

Let’s back up. 2 grams is 2,000 milligrams. Period. That’s a fact.

The recommended dose of is 0.5 grams (500 milligrams), given twice daily. That’sa total daily dose of 1 gram (1,000 milligrams).

2 grams, or 2,000 milligrams is considered a potentially lethal dose.

Please, do not take 2 grams just to prove me wrong. It is not a lethal dose for everyone.

However, it is more likely a lethal dose for smaller people (women and children). Do you want your wife and kids dead? LD50 is achieved at 25mg/kg. If you don’t understand that last sentence then you need to do some research and ignore the political tripe from both the left and right.

Here’s a good read:
https://entokey.com/toxicology-of-hydroxychloroquine-and-chloroquine-and-the-pathology-of-the-retinopathy-they-cause/

Proper testing is needed for this specific application. This is not political. This is why we (the Conservative movement) are failing to achieve traction on this and other science based matters . Not everything is based in politics.

Baseless denial leads to failure.

5 years ago

All Media outlets are using China talking points along with Democrats guidelines to destroy Trump, this virus is their weapon.

Tim Kuehl
5 years ago

Gives new meaning to the term, “yellow journalism.”

5 years ago
Reply to  Tim Kuehl

They ARE living up to the expectations of their “globalist” handlers…they EARNED the title “enemy of the people”…

Greg
5 years ago

There is ONE clear lesson in all this. Just LOOK at all the hurdles the FDA has “created”. Because of that One government agency the country is at a near standstill. The bureaucracy has created so many burdens that care is hindered. But has Congress even considered that as an option. It’s Never on the table. With bureaucracies come jobs, for their friends and families. The public suffers once again while they reap all the benefits. But we will get a stipend of 1000 and That should tide us over for the next four to six months.

Greg
5 years ago

After the briefing the woman on Fox sounded more like I was listening to CNN. I actually watched it on the White House YouTube channel. I only went to Fox to “see” Their reaction. True to form they blasted the President. After about a minute and a half I quit watching. She said they “have” to ask the tough questions. They are NOT questions but jabs “disguised” as questions. I, for one, am really sick of all these questions about supplies. Startup logistics take time and to ask daily the same question is ignorant at best, if not pure stupidity. How long did it take to mobilize for going into Iraq. And we had the supplies and equipment. In THIS case there wasn’t even the requisite supplies. As the President has HAD to say every DAMN day, the Administration has had to gear up for this crisis, if it is one.

A good example was the CNN idiot. “There was a doctor in Kentucky, a doctor in Illinois, a doctor in California..” That’s even more anecdotal than the drug in question.

This is ALL about keeping up the ratings after the Impeachment saga that went on and on. It’s Because of the media that states are shutting down and commerce is increasingly being shut down. We are at a point Now if any politician goes against the media mob they Will be destroyed, just as they are trying to do with Trump. This seditious media are truly the enemy of the people. Only ONE stands apart from the crowd, OAN, who again targeted the Washington Post today. No wonder their name is ONE America News.

Greg
5 years ago

And some pandemeggedon twitter users are referencing that article in support of their hysteria and suggesting 2+ million deaths.

At the end of the briefing on reporter asks about Trump post on the drug, with the snide comment, “and whether the 74 million twitter followers should be taking medical advice from him…”.