As Dr Tony Fauci — the top US official handling Covid-19 drugs — goes into quarantine, it’s interesting to speculate what treatment he’ll take if he succumbs to the virus.
In 1658, Oliver Cromwell perished from malaria because he refused to take quinine. He mistrusted the ‘Popish powder’ made from the Jesuits’ bark — from which hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) is also derived — because it had been brought to Europe by Catholics and was lauded in France, Italy and Spain.
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