“And there’s also other studies, you know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little — people that take this drug for malaria, which is very effective for malaria — that those countries have very little of this virus.”
Donald Trump
President. White House briefing. Claim dated 4 Apr 2020.
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Donald Trump (President) made this claim around 4 April 2020. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 April 2020, 5 days later. Its rating was “No Evidence”.
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