A picture taken on February 26, 2020 shows French professor Didier Raoult, biologist and professor of microbiology, specialized in infectious diseases and director of IHU Mediterranee Infection Institute posing in his office in Marseille, southeastern France. - Raoult reported this week that after treating 24 patients for six days with Plaquenil, the virus had disappeared in all but a quarter of them. The research has not yet been peer reviewed or published, and Raoult had come under fire by some scientists and officials in his native France for potentially raising false hopes. (Photo by GERARD JULIEN / AFP) (Photo by GERARD JULIEN/AFP via Getty Images)

After Trump Hypes Chloroquine as Covid-19 Cure, a Man Dies Swallowing a Version of the Chemical Used in Fish Tanks

A couple heard the president say a drug used to treat malaria might cure Covid-19. They drank a version of the chemical not intended for human consumption.

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