Touting criticized study, White House presses FDA to authorize hydroxychloroquine -- again
Source: Washington Post
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro is leading a Trump administration effort to demand the Food and Drug Administration reverse course and grant a second emergency authorization for the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus.
Navarro, armed with a new study that he says shows the drugs effectiveness, is being cheered on by President Trump, who has long touted the drug as a game changer and even used it himself as a possible preventive measure. Trump praised the study on Twitter this week, urging the FDA to Act Now. The campaign also has been promoted by Rudolph W. Giuliani, the presidents lawyer, and Laura Ingrahams show on Fox News.
But Navarro, an economist known more for his aggressive approach to trade issues and China policy than for his medical credentials, faces serious challenges as he denounces what he calls media-induced hydroxy hysteria. Scientists have widely criticized the new study, by Detroits Henry Ford Health System, as flawed. In addition, just weeks ago the FDA revoked its emergency authorization for hydroxychloroquine after major studies found the medication wasnt effective for covid-19. And the unexpected revival of a politically fraught issue comes as FDA Commissioner Stephen M. Hahn tries to shake off criticism he sometimes seems overly deferential to Trump.
A reversal [on hydroxychloroquine] would be widely seen as bending to the political will of the White House, and the hit to Dr. Hahns credibility would be profound, said Steven Joffe, a medical ethicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/07/10/peter-navarro-hydroxychloroquine-coronavirus/
Ferrets are Cool
(21,107 posts)Dayum, I know it must be there somewhere.
Champp
(2,114 posts)for pimping this shit.
ashredux
(2,606 posts)Garion_55
(1,915 posts)As well as Jared Kushner maybe some of the other right-wing talk show hosts who got together and decided to buy a shit ton of this crappy drug a couple months ago now they can't unload it anywhere and are stuck with the bill
I am 99.9% sure that Hannity has money tied into it. I occasionally listen to his show for shits and giggles and one day out of the blue he just started pitching that drug not just once not just twice during his show but devoted 20 30 40 minutes a day talking about it.
He turned into one big infomercial for it. you could go on YouTube search Hannity broadcast pick a day in may and you'll probably hear him talking about it.
Hannity went so far as to suggest that people should be allowed to take that drug in their own homes without a doctor's supervision. Nobody else made those kind of suggestions other than him so I know he's tied up financially somehow. Maybe that's why his wife is divorcing him.
moonscape
(4,673 posts)about 1,245 on the list of reasons she's divorcing him.
Botany
(70,516 posts)And I bet they bought in 2019 too.
brush
(53,791 posts)get rid of it so they're back trying to force gov. agencies to authorize it. Such open corruption is ok with them.
Botany
(70,516 posts)... pandemic and what did they do? Work to make money off of it.
brush
(53,791 posts)When you go bankrupt running casinos your judgment is suspect.
Initech
(100,081 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,035 posts)That's the QAnon cure.
BlueIdaho
(13,582 posts)Why do I think that Trump and his mob get a kickback on every single pill sold?