Despite warnings that Hydroxychloroquine is no more helpful than a placebo, President Trump is promoting it, again. 

Placebo's or sugar pills are given to hypochondriacs to provide a psychological lift, because the psyche plays an import role in healing.

But HCQ dare not leave people feeling that they are okay before a very real and very dangerous disease that is not in the mind. 

HCQ also carries a warning of heart side-effects, although the USFDA has cleared the drug for general, non-prescriptive use. 

However, Trump poured salt into the offence by hailing the manic rantings of a "Christian" doctor from Nigeria, now in the USA. 

Dr Stella Immanuel claims to have healed hundreds with HCQ, Zinc and other additives.

But she also rants about demonic causes for the virus and, as a doctor, opens by rebuking all the stands in her path.

Trump latched onto it in the hope of vindicating his own controversial stance on HCQ. It backfired. 

It might have worked had the doctor been of sober mind and with good science, Christian or not. But Trump brushed past that. 

Anyway, it poses big challenges for health in a world that is becoming more prejudiced against orthodox medicine. 

And in few parts of the world will that have a greater impact than in poor societies, that are more impressionable, even superstitious.

I can only hope that sense prevails and that Facebook doesn't bandwagon this as anything other than the fake it is. 

(c) Peter Missing @ me2u2all.blogspot.com