The FDA has issued an authorization for emergency use.
That’s nice, considering how much we’ve been fighting red tape since this started. But early results have been encouraging. Italy and France have been not just allowing, but prescribing it.
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No, Dan Diamond at Politico, there is not “scant evidence.” But you just keep being garbage.
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It’s not enough that we have to fight the virus; we have to continue to fight the FDA.
I agree with Glenn: “The thing is, Trump can intervene in these things, but there’s still delay, and there’s only so much a President can do to chivvy along the bureaucracy. I think he should announce that he’ll have a team of managers from outside government evaluate the performance of the FDA, CDC, NIH when this is over, with those found to have under-performed to be sacked.”
Bureaucracy can be just as deadly as a virus. The good news is that all of this is feeding the public’s desire to drain the DC swamp.
They’ll get to have a say in November.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Trump is slashing red tape again like he was 39.
[Update late morning]
Speaking of garbage journalism, read the latest from Treacher: “I can’t even imagine what poor Yamiche Alcindor from the PBS NewsHour is going through right now. It really puts my own petty concerns into perspective.”
I have to say that one of the people in whom I’ve been most disappointed in terms of TDS is S. E. Cupp. I used to have a lot of respect for her.
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[Noon update]
To get back to the original post topic, a doctor in New York has successfully treated almost 700 patients with no failures.
This might really be the magic bullet. If it’s prophylactic, the key is to ramp up production immediately, to get the economy going again.
[Update mid afternoon]
This could have saved a lot of people a century ago; let’s hope it helps now.
Love to read in the MSM stories that since Trump promoted the drug, which can’t really be discredited because well Dr. Fauci among others in the scientific community say otherwise, the narrative had to be shifted to it to be immediately horded by “bad” people, presumably preventing the sick from being able to get it. Again, because Orange Man Bad.
What they “forget” to tell you is that these are Rx only medications. The only “bad” hoarders have to be doctors, unless there is a robbery at an pharmacy. (Eyeroll) But don’t worry, federal government rationing to the rescue!
PS: I don’t get my science reports from Politico and neither should you.
The funny thing here is that the DNC media are upset Trump told her to, “be nice.” Every President deserves pointed questions but journalists can’t expect those of us watching to be willful idiots that can’t see the slant of their reporting.
It’s both. It’s a highly contagious disease that we didn’t know about a few months ago with an incubation period of several weeks that can spread when people are not showing symptoms. As of right now, 159,689 have tested positive and 2,951 have died. That’s 1.8%. We don’t have a culture of mask wearing like some of the Asian countries but maybe we will.