‘What Do You Have to Lose?’ How Trump Has Promoted Malaria Drug
President Trump has pushed a malaria drug, hydroxychloroquine, as a treatment for coronavirus patients. A recent study found that patients taking it had higher death rates compared with those who did not.
By The New York Times•April 22, 2020
Transcript:
It is known as a malaria drug, and it’s been around for a long time. And it’s very powerful, but the nice part is it’s been around for a long time, so we know that if things don’t go as planned, it’s not going to kill anybody. And it’s shown very encouraging very, very encouraging early results. There’s a possibility — a possibility — and I say it: What do you have to lose? I’ll say it again, what do you have to lose? Take it. I really think they should take it. But it’s their choice, and it’s their doctor’s choice or the doctor’s and the hospital. But hydroxychloroquine, try it if you’d like. It will be, not a game changer because that’s not a nice enough term — it will be wonderful. It’ll be so beautiful. It’ll be a gift from heaven. If it works that would be great. If it doesn’t work, we know for many years — malaria, it’s incredible what it’s done for malaria. It’s incredible what it’s done for lupus. But it doesn’t kill people. But if it was somebody else other than President Trump that put it forward, if some other person put it forward that said, “Oh, let’s go with it, you know, what do you have to lose?”
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(with apologies to Stephen Stills)
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Sip some Clorox
Drink a quart of Mr. Clean
What have you got to lose?
Arm and Hammer,
Lysol, Ajax, and Oxyclean
What have you got to lose?
Let me tell like it is
Listen to me, people
It's my re-election dyin'
And that's what I have to lose
I've got an answer
Quack cures and people die
What have I got to lose?
Please re-elect me
You're gonna die anyway
What have you got to lose?