Report: Trump-Backed Plasma Treatment Has 'Insufficient Data' Behind It, NIH Advisers Claim

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President Trump on August 23—the eve of the Republican National Convention and a day after accusing the FDA of holding up treatments for political reasons—announced an emergency authorization for the 'powerful therapy,' which drew rebukes from health experts.

Health advisers from the National Institutes of Health, a federal division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, criticized the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's recent assertion that convalescent plasma dramatically helps in treating patients suffering from Covid-19, according to a report from

Drug Administration participate in the daily coronavirus task force briefing at the White House on April 24, 2020 in Washington, DC. Earlier on Friday, President Trump signed into law the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, a $484 billion bill that aids small businesses and hospitals under stress from the coronavirus pandemic.

The NIH panel shared in a statement that there was"no difference in 7-day survival overall" in patients that received plasma as a treatment, despite the Trump administration claiming survival rates rose by 35%, with the group further saying, “There are insufficient data to recommend either for or against the use of convalescent plasma for the treatment of COVID-19.”

 

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Tech That would be any treatment at this point...

Blah blah blah. It won’t hurt to try it. Good god does Forbes oppose everything?

He we go again.... Media wont back the president who usually is right

I thought this is what they used in Spanish Flu era?

Everything trump peddles has insufficient data. The only aspects of his presidency with sufficient data are his incompetence, mendacity and stupidity

The FDA is a killer machine - politics instead of science - BAD

My regional hospital has stopped using this treatment which has shown no results

'trump backed' what? fORBES IS TABLOID TRASH

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