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9. "It's one thing not to have benefit but this shows distinct harm," Trump, "What do you have to lose"
Fri May 22, 2020, 09:29 AM
May 2020

April 9, 2020

Trump again touts unproven drug to treat coronavirus: ‘What do you have to lose?’

That’s what Trump said Sunday during a White House news briefing on the coronavirus pandemic, adding: “I’m not looking at it one way or another. But we want to get out of this. If it does work, it would be a shame if we didn’t do it early.”

“What do I know? I’m not a doctor,” Trump said. “But I have common sense. The FDA feels good about it, as you know, they approved it.”

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“We don’t have time to say, ‘Gee, let’s take a couple of years and test it out, and let’s go and test with the test tubes and the laboratories,’ ” Trump said Sunday, claiming that even if it’s not effective against the coronavirus, there’s no harm in trying because “it doesn’t kill people.”


https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-again-touts-unproven-drug-to-treat-coronavirus-what-do-you-have-to-lose-2020-04-05

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