claim: asthma medicine not proven as covid-19 ‘cure’
summary: a texas doctor who formerly ran for congress promoted the false claim that an asthma medication, budesonide, worked as a covid-19 vaccine
subject_description: claims that a vaccine isn’t “needed” for covid-19 because an asthma medication serves as a cure
Motive_Description: create hope that there is already a covid-19 vaccine
author_description: dr. richard bartlett
keywords: coronavirus, vaccine, asthma, budesonide