<p>President Trump has of late mentioned the former as potentially promising in the treatment of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2. He has repeatedly mentioned chloroquine, saying the drug that is commonly used to treat and prevent malaria has shown promise in treading COVID-19.</p>
<p>So when a man in Arizona, who did not have coronavirus, died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate &#8212; which was an ingredient in a fish-tank cleaning solution he had &#8212; the media was quick to ascribe the death to Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;The wife of an Arizona man who died after ingesting chloroquine phosphate to protect himself from the coronavirus spoke out on Monday to warn the public not to &#8216;take anything&#8217; or &#8216;believe anything&#8217; without speaking to a healthcare professional,&#8221; <a href="https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/03/24/trump-kept-saying-it-was-basically-pretty-much-a-cure-woman-whose-husband-died-after-ingesting-chloroquine-warns-the-public-not-to-believe-anything-that-the-president-says/23960062/">Business Insider</a> reported.</p>
<p>The man&#8217;s wife, who also suffered serious injury from drinking the fish tank cleaner, blamed President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>&#8220;&#8216;We saw Trump on TV — every channel — and all of his buddies and that this was safe,&#8217; the woman told NBC News&#8217; Vaughn Hillyard, referring to President Donald Trump. &#8216;Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump did not call the medication a &#8220;cure,&#8221; and certainly did not instruct individuals to ingest any product that contained chloroquine, but several news outlets reported the story, taking the woman&#8217;s story at face value, never differentiating between the two chemicals. Some even got Trump into the headline.</p>
<p>The left-leaning political website Axios was forced to a post on Twitter that said: “Man dies after self-medicating with chloroquine.”</p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-width="500" data-dnt="true">
<p lang="en" dir="ltr">We have deleted this tweet and corrected our story because it did not reflect the full nature of the self-medication done with an additive commonly used to clean fish tanks. <a href="https://t.co/0zucqRaIkI">https://t.co/0zucqRaIkI</a> <a href="https://t.co/3YY86rju2w">pic.twitter.com/3YY86rju2w</a></p>
<p>&mdash; Axios (@axios) <a href="https://twitter.com/axios/status/1242425467438858241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2020</a></p></blockquote>
<p>The website also added this to the piece: “Editor’s note: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that the form of chloroquine the couple ingested was used in aquariums — and it was not a medication.”</p>
<p>Meanwhile, the left-leaning website <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/briannasacks/man-died-chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus">BuzzFeed</a> reported: “A Man Died After Self-Medicating With A Drug Trump Promoted As A Potential Treatment For The Coronavirus.” But then they changed the headline to: &#8220;A Man Died After Self-Medicating With A Form Of A Drug That Trump Promoted As A Potential Treatment For The Coronavirus.&#8221; Well, technically true &#8212; they both contain chloroquine &#8212; but one cures malaria and the other is toxic if ingested and kills you.</p>
<p>The uber-liberal <a href="https://time.com/5808688/chloroquine-phosphate-coronavirus-death/">Time</a> magazine wrote: &#8220;Arizona Man Dies After Taking Chemical in Coronavirus Treatment Touted by President Trump.&#8221;</p>
<p>The <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/24/coronavirus-cure-kills-man-after-trump-touts-chloroquine-phosphate">Guardian</a> published a piece with this headline: &#8220;Arizona man dies after attempting to take Trump coronavirus &#8216;cure&#8217;.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-03-23/arizona-man-dies-after-taking-chloroquine-for-coronavirus">US News</a> posted a Reuters story with this headline: &#8220;Arizona Man Dies After Taking Chloroquine for Coronavirus.&#8221;</p>
<p>And <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-news-arizona-man-dies-after-taking-chloroquine-drug-touted-by-trump-as-treatment/">CBS News</a> went all in: &#8220;Arizona man dies, wife ill after taking drug touted as virus treatment: &#8216;Trump kept saying it was basically pretty much a cure.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Trump last week said the malaria drug has shown promise. &#8220;It&#8217;s shown very encouraging — very, very encouraging early results,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;And we&#8217;re going to be able to make that drug available almost immediately. And that&#8217;s where the FDA has been so great. They — they&#8217;ve gone through the approval process; it&#8217;s been approved. And they did it, they took it down from many, many months to immediate. So we&#8217;re going to be able to make that drug available by prescription or states.&#8221;</p>
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