Michael Hiltzik: Trump, Musk hyped a possible coronavirus cure. Now we know how dangerous that is
by Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times
Mar 24, 2020
3 minutes
It's a truism that ignorant information tends to fill a vacuum. Thanks to people like President Trump and Elon Musk, we're now learning that ignorance can drive good information out of the public sphere - dangerously.
The leading data point on the perils of this sort of ignorance comes from Phoenix. There, the hospital chain Banner Health reports that a man has died and his wife is in critical condition after they ingested chloroquine phosphate.
They may have been under the impression that it was
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