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Journalist @TorontoStar omarmosleh@thestar.ca

Apr 7, 2020, 5 tweets

Quite enjoyed speaking with @CaulfieldTim about the "continuum" of misinformation in the COVID-19 pandemic and the literal life and death implications we're seeing thestar.com/news/canada/20… He says he's never seen anything like it.

the #hydroxychloriquine thing is insane. and it's STILL GOING twitter.com/i/events/12474…

“What do you have to lose? Take it,” the president said on Saturday as he boasted that the US had amassed 29m doses of the drug.

theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…

Reminder - In March, an Arizona man died after consuming chloroquine phosphate, a fish tank cleaner, which he thought was hydroxychloroquine.

Also, uh forbes.com/sites/lisettev…

From Mr. Caulfield

"The interest in this drug — including by the President of the United States (sigh) — is largely based on the reporting of one, small, methodologically flawed study... At this point, we don’t have the good, clinical data, to support its use."

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