Coronavirus Information...who do you trust?

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Trump had a tweet removed for passing bad information from people claiming to be doctors calling his favorite drug a "cure" for Covid and declaring you don't need masks.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/twitter-removes-tweet-highlighted-trump-falsely-claiming-covid-cure-n1235075

Quote:Twitter has removed a tweet that had been retweeted by President Donald Trump that falsely said that there was a cure for the coronavirus.


Late Monday night, Trump retweeted the tweet from an account with the handle “@stella_immanuel” that said, "Covid has cure. America wake up."

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Twitter soon after removed the tweet and replaced it with a gray box that says, "This Tweet is no longer available."

A cure for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, doesn't exist and scientists have been working on developing both a range of treatments as well as vaccines. They and the Trump administration are racing to have a vaccine ready by the end of the year.


Twitter said early Tuesday morning, "Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy."


Trump also retweeted tweets defending the use of the drug Hydroxychloroquine, including one that accused Dr. Anthony Fauci, a member of the White House coronavirus task force, of misleading the public by dismissing the drug.


"I have not been misleading the public under any circumstances," Fauci responded on ABC's "Good Morning America" on Tuesday morning when asked for his reaction to Trump's retweets.


Fauci reiterated that the "overwhelming prevailing clinical trials" that have looked at the efficacy of Hydroxychloroquine have indicated that it's "not effective" in treating the coronavirus.



This comes as Trump has recently attempted to take a more moderate approach to the COVID-19 pandemic.