On the eve of the start of the Republican National Convention, President Trump on Sunday touted a “very historic breakthrough” in treating coronavirus, announcing that the government had authorized the emergency use of blood plasma from recovered COVID-19 patients to combat the disease.
In an appearance at the White House, Trump, whose pandemic policies have come under scathing attack from Democrats, claimed credit for personally prodding what he depicted as a reluctant federal bureaucracy into action with the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency order.“That’s such a powerful term, emergency use,” he said. “Today’s action will dramatically expand access to this treatment. ... The results have been incredible.
At last week’s Democratic convention, Trump’s pandemic policies were excoriated, and the outbreak’s grim course is expected to be aby the Democrats’ nominee, former Vice President Joe Biden. Trump this week will formally accept the Republican presidential nomination. In earlier appearances on Sunday’s news-talk shows, Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, provided no evidence to back up the president’s claim of a deliberate slowdown in approving coronavirus therapeutics, blaming “bureaucrats who think that they can just do this the way they normally do it.”In a separate appearance on ABC’s “This Week,” Meadows suggested that Hahn‘s job might have been in jeopardy.“It’s almost impossible to fire a federal employee, regardless of what they do wrong,” he said.
Other scientists questioned Trump’s role in promoting the treatment. Benjamin Corb, public affairs director of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, said Trump was “once again putting his political goals ahead of the health and well-being of the American public.”“The FDA last week held up on issuing this authorization at the behest of government scientists who are awaiting clinical trials to prove the safety and efficacy of the treatment,” he said in a statement.
The president has denigrated mask-wearing, which is urged by virtually all public health professionals, and touted the use of hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial drug indicated in controlled clinical trials to offer no benefit in treating COVID-19.
People needs to sue the government if this plasma therapy doesn’t work at all 😒😒😒
ShutUpDonaldTrump
Well he got it approved DA and call and ask ( do your job) ask Mark Meadows
The mail is too fast and now the FDA is too slow it's like a childish nursery story.
How many hours apart from chlorine consumption should someone use the plasma treatment? Or it doesn’t matter? 👀
Im a MD and I know its not new
'Nearly 7 in 10 Americans say the US response to the coronavirus outbreak makes them feel embarrassed, according to a new CNN Poll' Just when you think it couldn't get worse, it gets worse...
Not new! F.D.A.’s Emergency Approval of Blood Plasma Is Now on Hold
Out of both sides...always.
It's not 'new' plasma therapy has already been used in 70 thousand people. Trump is laying claim to something that already was widely employed in the treatment of covid19 because he sucks
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