The experimental drug US President Donald Trump credited with beating his COVID-19 infection was tested with the help of a cell line originally derived from an aborted fetus.
Last Friday, Mr Trump tweeted confirming he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19.and I tested positive for COVID-19. We will begin our quarantine and recovery process immediately. We will get through this TOGETHER!The president was administered Regeneron Pharmaceuticals's REGN-COV2, which is an experimental and unapproved antibody cocktail used to treat COVID-19., and also said the drugs he had been given were like"miracles coming down from God".
The antibodies given to Mr Trump were not made from fetal tissue, but similar antibodies were, at an earlier stage, tested on a cell line originally derived from an aborted fetus. In 2019, the Trump administration imposed restrictions on the federal funding of research requiring fetal tissue.made several appeals to the administrationUnder the Trump administration's new rules, scientists must detail exactly why they require fetal tissue and how much of it will be obtained.
Only CONSISTENT 'values' Republicans display are hypocrisy and selfishness! The farce of Trump limiting use of fetal tissue in research, while now touting such a product as a 'miracle drug' (as if HE invented it!) proves the point. Ditto evangelicals' acceptance of it 🙄
Ha ha ha ha ha
Everyone is guilty of it then, have you not seen the ingredients of vaccines?
Oh SBS, trying to find some kind of dirt to stick on Trump. Scraping the bottom of the smear barrel now though, aren’t you?
I wonder about the combined side effects of the experimental drug with dexamethasone given Trump's very strange behaviour lately!
Trump and Scomo one in the same.
Hypocrisy!
Trump and his administration are a bunch of hypocrites. Opposing research and treatment solutions, only until it affects them and helps them. selfishleader TrumpIsANationalDisgrace TrumpNoMore
Dah...all vaccines do too...news flash.
I haven't heard any objections from the Christian lobby about him using this drug.
Aborted fetus cells are used to make many vaccines.
It's a bit early to say he's beaten it.
Wow. That's some 3D chess skills. Your work experience kid worked overtime to come up with that negative story.
I believe that Trump is actually dead...but slightly more alive then Pence...
Trump would drink Novachuk if he thought it would cure his COVID-19 virus
He is a fake god believer we all know it, shame on him using religion for his own advantage
What a pathetic article of no consequence SBS really lower than the low Miss the days of real journalism
Company could have used adult cell lines, adult stem cells, such companies are unethical, immoral and simply evil. GOP WhiteHouse There ought to be a ban on using fetal cells & also a ban on using animals.
Did he know that before administered, you left that out.
It’s a miracle he knows what country he’s in charge of.
Ozesurfer You only have to look at that photo to know he didn't beat Covid. It beat him into the ground.
So f...g what. SBS are becoming irrelevant
Cool story bro... how far can u reach 😂😂😂😂😂😂
So is most of medicine, return to 1921 if you all of a sudden want to switch sides.
What's the point? Politicalize a medicine? If it works, it is a cure!
Actually, if you read Regeneron's statement, the stem cell lines are also established using embryos created via IVF. Tho, that doesn't diminish that it's against the Trump administrations policy, but it's against ProLife stance.
A science denialist, opponent to women’s rights, yet turned to science using aborted foetuses’ to save his lying arse from COVID, what a hypocrite?
Pretty low article SBS..... misleading and nothing more than trash journalism
Great that SBS has highlighted that the Trump administration is pro-life. Trump is apposed to full term abortions that the Democrats are proponents. Pro-choice shouldn’t allow a baby at 9 months or at birth to be aborted!!!
Pro-life hypocrisy at its finest and most greasy. He immediately started back up with misinformation about COVID-19 and stopped wearing a mask. He's a plague rat who benefuts from socialized medicine while paying only $750 on taxes. Paaaaathetic
The coronavirus is Mongolian biological weapon! If don't believe it, they may slowly end killing humanity!
Three wives, numerous visits to prostitutes and a total disregard for others. Yep a true Christian.
What happened to the SBS? My Italian grandfather would be horrified to see the partisan nonsense spewing out of it.
Some sick puppies working at sbs.
The 'pro-life' crowd will still vote for him. Let's not kid ourselves that they have any moral highground on anything. Especially when it comes to lying.
Which is the same as the MRC-5 strain used to make vaccines. I agree, we definitely should ban all vaccines that use aborted fetus cells! Which is almost all of them.
Just when you think journalism could not get any lower.
Oop.
He kinda looks like Benjamin Button retrograding into an aborted fetus
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