American golfer John Daly walked back his suggestion that a bottle of vodka a day can cure coronavirus
- John Daly filmed a video for the Trump Organization in which he said a bottle of vodka a day can cure the coronavirus.
- John Daly now says he was joking.
- "[It's a] shame we can't have any humor in this country or this world anymore, you know, without somebody busting your you-know-what," he told Golf.com.
- Vodka cannot cure the coronavirus.
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The American golfer John Daly has walked back his suggestion that a bottle of vodka a day can keep the coronavirus at bay, telling Golf.com it's a "shame we can't have any humor anymore."
In a YouTube video shared last week by the Trump Organization, titled "A Message From John Daly | Trump Golf," the 54-year-old offered his method for curing COVID-19 — Belvedere vodka and a McDonald's diet coke.
"Hopefully we'll get over this thing pretty soon and we'll get out there and play a lot more golf," Daly said in the Trump video. "Everybody [can] go back to work.
"But I kind of got a cure for this, ya know. I only drink one drink a day … it just happens to be a bottle of the good ol' Belvedere and you just drink one of these a day, you know … sippy sippy on McDonald's Diet Coke, wash it down pretty good and never have a hangover.
"And that's the way you kill this coronavirus, I believe," Daly said.
Daly's suggestion goes against advice from the World Health Organization, which said in a statement that alcohol is harmful to health in general.
It added that in times of lockdown during the coronavirus pandemic, consumption "can exacerbate health vulnerability, risk-taking behaviors, mental health issues, and violence.
"Alcohol does not protect [people] from COVID-19."
Daly recently clarified that he was only joking
Speaking to Golf.com, Daly said he filmed the video "for fun."
The two-time former major winner said: "[It's a] shame we can't have any humor in this country or this world anymore, you know, without somebody busting your you-know-what.
"I didn't mean to hurt anybody's feelings. Hell, I was just doing it for fun, just try to get some laughs in the tough times we're going through.
"We all need some [fun] right now, we all need a sense of humor right now. We pray for the people who have fallen and pray for this virus to get over. I didn't mean any harm by it."
There has been 1,158,041 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the US as of Monday morning, with 67,682 deaths linked to the virus.
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