The Trump administration’s effort to rapidly launch a U.S. manufacturer for drugs to treat coronavirus patients hinges on a new company whose chief executive is best known for a failed anti-allergy injector and for raising the prices of a powerful opioid antidote.
Its CEO Eric Edwards previously helped create the drug company Kaleo to market Auvi-Q, which was supposed to compete with the EpiPen anti-allergy injection pen — but it was pulled from the market in 2015 over safety concerns. Kaleo brought it back to market in 2017. Edwards rejected such criticisms. "I was the co-founder and co-inventor of the Kaleo products that have saved thousands of lives," he told POLITICO. "I left Kaleo over 18 months ago and was never involved in any pricing decisions."
But a Phlow spokesperson said those drugs were produced at U.S. facilities owned by its partner Civica, a non-profit corporation founded by leading hospital systems that wanted to produce affordable generics and reduce chronic shortages. In early February, as the coronavirus spread within and beyond China, “there was a call with this basic sense of urgency from Peter Navarro’s office saying, ‘We’d like to come down and talk to you about this,’” said Gupton. “They brought basically a SWAT team from HHS, the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense. We sat down on a Saturday afternoon.”
Seems to have the right qualifications to lead pandemic treatments. Loyalty above all
Like everything else in the Trump administration you need to follow the money to see who benefits and realize that the ability of those awarded contracts means nothing. Sometimes it seems they select the worse person possible to combat an issue. After all Phlow rhymes with blow.
The best people.
isn't that the bio of every drug company
Trump still scraping the bottom of the barrel... Why I'm not surprised 😠
Hmmm...the company has shown a deliberate lack of concern for the safety of people and actively participates in price gouging. He is the right man for Trump!!!
Another layer of trump corruption! It will take decades to undo the damage that he has done!
Should we be shocked?
Fits right in with the rest of the first crime family.
But of course.
Must have contributed a lot of money to Trump's campaign fund.
plucked directly from the swamp PresidentBodyBags
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