A GOP chairwoman in Arizona, who will likely be a doctor, was once temporarily restricted on Twitter after she shared a viral coronavirus misinformation video

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Arizona Republican Celebration Chairwoman Kelli Ward had her twitter tale restricted on Tuesday after reposting the viral video of scientific doctors presenting debunked info about the coronavirus, which was once also retweeted by President Donald Trump and his son Donald Trump Jr.

Twitter also restricted the twitter tale of Donald Trump Jr. and eliminated his tweet that comprises the video. 

In line with AZ Central Twitter deemed that Ward violated the firm’s policy on spreading deceptive and “doubtlessly harmful” about coronavirus. 

Twitter had eliminated clips of the video, which featured Dr. Stella Immanuel, an apparent Texas-basically based pediatrician, who claimed that hydroxychloroquine would possibly perhaps perhaps maybe furthermore cure COVID-19.

It is no longer a cure for COVID-19, the disease prompted by the original coronavirus. There isn’t any longer any identified cure for the disease prompted by the coronavirus, and the Food and Drug Administration revoked the emergency use of hydroxychloroquine abet in June. Several research salvage confirmed that hydroxychloroquine failed to again hospitalized patients and has no main scientific advantages when frail to treat coronavirus.

“Tweets with the video are in violation of our COVID-19 misinformation policy,” a Twitter consultant beforehand told Trade Insider. “We’re taking motion per our policy.”

Ward will likely be a household physician, and AZCentral reported that the GOP chairwoman has many instances downplayed the coronavirus outbreak in Arizona. By the close of June and early July, Arizona was once a coronavirus hotspot within the country. Conditions surged, and scientific doctors working with coronavirus patients told Trade Insider at the time, that they were pulling 90-hour work weeks to maintain with the alternative of oldsters hospitalized. Many were burnt out and concerned that folk weren’t taking the virus significantly sufficient and causing this further stress on the healthcare machine. 

However, in a tweet the states Republican Celebration falsely claimed that the chairwoman tale was once “suspended” when it was once entirely temporarily restricted and known as Twitter’s response “election interference.”

—Arizona Republican Celebration (@AZGOP) July 28, 2020

“… With one week to pass till Arizona’s distinguished election, suspending the chairwoman’s tale — thereby limiting our capacity to attain her more than 80,000 Twitter followers — hinders our capacity to talk with voters, relieve Arizonans to get out vote, and silences a an important conservative insist in our explain,” Greg Safsten, the explain get collectively’s executive director told AZ Central. 

In line with AZ Central, Ward has a historical past of making controversial statements collectively with suggesting that the tiresome Sen. John McCain’s household announced that he was once ending his most cancers cure to intervene along with her 2018 say for Senate. McCain died hours after Ward made these statements. 

Neither the GOP nor Ward salvage responded to Trade Insider’s query for explain at the time of publication. 

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