Science vs. Trump

 I was just Googling for information on remdesivir, a drug currently recommended in official protocols for the treatment of Covid-19 and wound up reading an article on an NIH internet site titled:

Impact of Trump's Promotion of Unproven COVID-19 Treatments and Subsequent Internet Trends: Observational Study

Web Address: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7685699/

This article has all the appearance of being a report on scientific research and has a publication date of November 20, 2020.

Apparently some folks went really out of their way to establish what an evil effect that President Trump's various communications had on the public welfare by mentioning unproven treatments for Covid-19 early in the pandemic cycle. Frequent mention is made to one death that occurred as a result of a chloroquine overdose, an event that caused a media storm at the time. No other deaths are mentioned which leads me to believe that the main focus of the study, the bullseye, was this one death.

The discussion at the end of this article would, it seems to me, lead any reader to imagine that President Trump disregarded scientific information and acted irresponsibly by mentioning several possible treatments for Covid that had not been FDA approved. According to data charted in this article, see Table 2, chloroquine was first mentioned in the media by President Trump on March 19, 2020.

The report doesn't mention that chloroquine was approved for emergency use to treat Covid-19 nine days later, March 28, 2020:

https://medlineplus.gov/druginfo/meds/a682318.html

Note that this emergency use authorization was canceled June 15, 2020.

In other words, Trump beat the FDA to the punch by nine days triggering these scientists to issue a scathing report about how irresponsible he was to do so since it led to one overdose death.

Isn't that just science for ya? I used to enjoy science but it has become so corrupt!

But you know, when it comes to Trump Derangement  Syndrome anything goes.