Trump staffers pushed unproven COVID treatment at FDA

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Link to MSN story here. Because who are you going to listen to for dealing with a pandemic: A bunch of egghead public health doctors or celebrities who've been on teevee? It would be funny except for that whole "hundreds of thousands of people dying" while the former guy was fucking around.

Panel: Trump staffers pushed unproven COVID treatment at FDA
By MATTHEW PERRONE and KEVIN FREKING, Associated Press - 2h ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials in the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing a discredited COVID-19 treatment, according to a congressional investigation that provides new evidence of that administration’s efforts to override Food and Drug Administration decisions early in the pandemic.

The report Wednesday by the Democratic-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis also sheds new light on the role that television personalities played in bringing hydroxychloroquine to the attention of top White House officials. Investigators highlighted an email from Fox News’ Laura Ingraham and others from Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity heart surgeon who had a daytime TV show and is now the Republican Senate nominee in Pennsylvania. Ingraham attended an Oval Office meeting with President Donald Trump, who himself took the anti-malaria drug.

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1. Oh that's an ad for Fetterman

If it hasn’t been already