Scott And Ron's Big Op-Ed
from UpNorthNews Daily Coronavirus Update
Republican Sen. Ron Johnson and ex-Gov. Scott Walker on Thursday published an op-ed in the Cap Times hyping up hydroxychloroquine, the malaria drug falsely promoted by President Trump as an effective treatment for the coronavirus. In an op-ed broadly calling for a bipartisan approach to fighting the virus, Walker and Johnson quickly descended into right-wing talking points, advocated for keeping the economy open, and pushed the unproven drug. They argued the medical community — which has widely discredited the use of hydroxychloroquine, or HCQ, in numerous studies — is only against the drug because Trump takes and touts it.
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