White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Wednesday chided CNN anchor Chris Cuomo for using quinine to aid in his coronavirus recovery.
Cuomo has repetitively taken jabs at President Donald Trump for taking hydroxychloroquine as a preventative measure.
“You had Chris Cuomo saying the president knows that hydroxychloroquine is not supported by science, he knows it has been flagged by his own people and he’s using it,” McEnany said at a White House press briefing.
“Cuomo mocked the president for this” but “it turns out that Chris Cuomo took a less safe version of it called quinine, which the FDA removed from the market in 2006 because it had serious side effects, including death. So really interesting to have that criticism of the president.”
Cuomo’s wife, Cristina, on her website Purist, wrote that Chris’ daily intake included:
“Potentized quinine (OXO); it’s derived from the nontoxic bark of Peruvian-grown quinine plants. It is a natural antibiotic (it’s being used in India with very good results). This is not on the market here; Dr. Lancaster has made this in her lab for 40 years, and I took this for my Lyme. (The medicine Plaquinol, which many doctors are using for COVID-19 is similar to quinine, but it has negative side effects.)”
Cuomo on Monday said Trump taking hydroxychloroquine was a “winning argument” for the president politically.
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