That's a shame.
But it shows why it's a good idea to wait before proclaiming a cure in the way Trump did. His gut turns out to have been full of hot air which perfumed the Bananarepublican information supply chain.
Not that it needs him. The list of pathetic nonsense that pours out of there is lengthy. The failure to reexamine it sad.
If you get everything wrong about Benghazi, birtherism, climate change, trickle down economics, Uranium One, Seth Rich, Pizzagate, creation etc, why would anyone expect you to figure how to respond to coronavirus. Of course you'll adopt a hypothesis without evidence. Because that's what you do.
The GOP needs to find ways to winnow out poor quality leaders and to improve its news model.