14 April 2020 - When President Donald Trump suggested that an off-labeled repurposing of a pair of old antimalarial drugs might prove to be a “game-changer” coronavirus therapeutic, pundits howled that he was irresponsibly peddling false hope to a weary American public like some late-night snake oil salesman.
While predictable, this gut reaction wasn't remotely informed by science, but instead the sort of petty tribalism that makes even pandemics partisan affairs in this country.
Set aside whether you support the president or not, because the virus doesn’t care.