March 20, 2020

The Trump dump

Stat News -Trump, addressing a nation under shelter and quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic, said a new drug for Covid-19, yet to be proved safe and effective, was now “approved or very close to approved.” Another, also not approved for coronavirus, would be “available almost immediately,” in part because using it is “not going to kill anybody.”

Then, minutes later, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn, took the dais in the White House briefing room and delicately walked back each one of Trump’s statements. Nothing about the FDA’s deliberate process had changed, and no miracle medicine was a pen stroke away from solving the crisis. Pharma stocks that had surged fell back again.

1 comment:

Greg Gerritt said...

That anyone takes anything he said seriously is a sad affair. He is a pathological liar, and always makes stuff up because theie is really nothing between his ears except his own voice in his head. as there is no room for anything else.