Lie April 4, 2020 · Press conference · Coronavirus

“And there's also other studies, you know, with the malaria, that the malaria countries have very little -- people that take [hydroxychloroquine] for malaria, which is very effective for malaria -- that those countries have very little of this virus. I don't know. You're going to check it out.”

Said
April 4, 2020
Where
News conference
Verdict
Lie, as rated by the Washington Post Fact Checker
Topic
Coronavirus
Repeated
43 times in the Post’s database
Source
Washington Post claims database (claim ID 19027)

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