The U.S. Food & Drug Administration announcement of its “emergency use authorization” of the treatment came on the eve of the Republican National Convention, where Trump will be nominated to lead his party for four more years.
The agency also said it determined this was a safe approach in an analysis of 20,000 patients who received the treatment. So far, 70,000 patients have been treated using blood plasma, the FDA said. Trump is looking to boost his lagging poll numbers during the Republican convention this week, and progress in treatments or an effective vaccine to gain control of the virus would aid his re-election chances.
Michael Steele, who served as chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2009 to 2011, said the Trump administration was putting politics ahead of science. COVID-19 patients have been receiving convalescent plasma for several months through clinical trials at medical centers such as New York’s Mount Sinai Hospital and Johns Hopkins.
The White House declined to comment on a separate report in the Financial Times that the administration is considering fast-tracking an experimental COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca Plc and Oxford University for use in the United States ahead of the Nov. 3 elections.
Trump thinks that he can win re-election if he can claim to be the guy who saved us from the virus. No way. I would not vote for him if he cured cancer and brought my dead wife back.
Can’t wait to see the tantrums start when he realized doctors aren’t rushing to treat their patients with it.
Take away his bit of paper, and witness what he really knows and cares.
Does he know what he's talking about?
Why dont you let us hear what Trump said. Instead of some neutered voice interpreting what he said. Unfortunately for Reuters, only 6% of the people can be fooled all the time, research shows.
The Deep State is the entity that owns Reuters. Nothing new, we always knew it.
So they suddenly say it's ok to use since August 19?
Trump is a prematurely lame uck.
I’m why are they all praising Trump. He doesn’t actually do anything..I’d like to say none of this would happen with out the great leadership of President Trump..oh my gawd, what leadership? Stop praising him Luke he’s God his ego is so big.
Nothing fishy here!
Flip flop much?
In 1,267 days, President Trump has made 20,055 false or misleading claims tRump is a psychopath IMO
Ridiculers what does it mean by Politics reason Once those vaccine emerged, blood plasm from recovered patient should be released. Because it equal to the same effect.
Americans wiill have to put up with the devil who will parade mbers of his family from his son in law to 2 dumb girls at the rnc podium in the next 4 days. His last loyal confidant has resigned because she doesn't want to head to jail by the most stupid president in modern time.
So... he pressures a gubernamental agency to step it up and when they do he praises them for doing so. And this is bad how? OH... it’s HIM saying it. Got it.
Does it look like political pressure on FDA? Bloody hell yes.
Knowing DT , he knew that this FDA approval was coming when he made his previous announcement agst the FDA. Wish we could get his college records to verify if this potus is simply a moron ?
He should encourage his supporters to volunteer by offering his own services as a test subject.
This treatment is old. They have been using it since April in Iraq. Nothing new
More snake oil from the moron who had to pay someone else to take his college entrance exams.
Dufus !!!
This is a lie
Thank goodness he wasn’t pushing Mr. my Pillows oleandrin!
He forced the authorization
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