FDA chief apologizes for overstating plasma effect on virus

[groundloop]

Source: ABC News

WASHINGTON -- Responding to an outcry from medical experts, Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn on Tuesday apologized for overstating the life-saving benefits of treating COVID-19 patients with convalescent plasma.

Scientists and medical experts have been pushing back against the claims about the treatment since President Donald Trump’s announcement on Sunday that the FDA had decided to issue emergency authorization for convalescent plasma, taken from patients who have recovered from the coronavirus and rich in antibodies.

Trump hailed the decision as a historic breakthrough even though the treatment’s value has not been established. The announcement on the eve of Trump’s Republican National Convention raised suspicions that it was politically motivated to offset critics of the president's handling of the pandemic.

Hahn had echoed Trump in saying that 35 more people out of 100 would survive the coronavirus if they were treated with the plasma. That claim vastly overstated preliminary findings of Mayo Clinic observations.



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[ashredux]

1. Damn late....that Horse left the barn yesterday!!

You were Compromised....Period. Resign!!!

[jrthin]

2. This! nt

[empedocles]

3. Not so quick with the resignation demand. Next guy bound to be worse.

[ashredux]

5. But, will you believe him next time he gets up and says something Trump wants him to say?

[Leghorn21]

4. Well, at least this Hahn guy seems to have a glimmer of a tad of integrity...weird

All these people are just so fkn WEIRD

[dalton99a]

6. About time this servile sycophant was exposed

[old guy]

7. With his apology should be a letter of resignation.

[llashram]

8. key word, vastly

and among the thousands of lies spewed from the lips of trump, his administration's mouthpieces all the way back to Sean Spicer and from the lips of coerced administration individuals evidently afraid of the clown sitting at the Resolute Deck in a now very toxic Oval Office.

When he is kicked out I just know professional-grade fumigators are going to have to sanitize, purify and deep cleanse the White House of his and his family of grifters, filth

[TomCADem]

9. The Trump COVID Response Continues to be an Ongoing CF

[SunSeeker]

10. Another person gets too close to Trump and lets Trump destroy their reputation.

[BigmanPigman]

11. He has garnered no respect from anyone.

Everything he says from now on will be questioned and his integrity is shot to Hell.