Trump Reportedly Summoned FDA Head to WH Meeting With Ingraham and Her ‘Medical Cabinet’ to Promote Untested Hydroxychloroquine Treatment
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Trump Reportedly Summoned FDA Head to WH Meeting With Ingraham and Her ‘Medical Cabinet’ to Promote Untested Hydroxychloroquine Treatment
Posted: Tue, 07 Apr 2020 01:55:24 +0000
President Donald Trump reportedly summoned FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn to the White House to meet with Fox News’ Laura Ingraham and two of her show’s “medical cabinet” to talk up the use of the drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus.
According to the Washington Post , the president convened a meeting last Friday with the head of the nation’s food and drug agency and the Fox News primetime host as well as a pair of her favorite guests. Both Trump and numerous figures on Fox News have repeatedly suggested and pushed the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for coronavirus, even though it has not passed any clinical trials for COVID-19 and its off-label usage can have serious side effects, including death .
“Fox host Laura Ingraham and two doctors who are regular on-air guests in what she dubs her ‘medical cabinet’ visited the White House last Friday for a private meeting with Trump to talk up the drug,” the Post reported. “She brought along two guests of her program — Ramin Oskoui , a Washington-based cardiologist, and Stephen Smith , a New Jersey-based infectious disease specialist — and Trump asked that FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn attend as well.”
Per the Post , Smith pitched Trump about the benefits of hydroxychloroquine based on his own anecdotal experiences. Trump responded positively and “emerged from that meeting seemingly determined to advocate for hydroxychloroquine to be more widely used.”
The FDA declined to comment on the meeting. But a senior administration official, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said Hahn has had to tread cautiously about the drug but was still reluctant to speak about it positively before any actual clinical trials have been completed.
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Someone should investigate who it is that stands to make money off this. Make sure the Trump crime family isnt planning to pig out at the trough.
In the meantime Trump is trying to supplant his government "science experts" with people brought to him by a television show.
The National Enquirer cabinet...
Having said that, if a person's doctors think the drug might help the patient, it should be given to them.
True, except that even FoxNews has discovered that doctors are more aware of these drugs than FoxNews reporters.
There are over a dozen drugs, treatments, and combinations of drugs that are being looked at. There have been a few limited studies done and hydroxychloroquine shows slight if any benefit to COVID-19 treatment, and the side effects could be extreme. Other drugs, and combinations show more promise with fewer side effects.
So why is Trump constantly promoting hydroxychloroquine???
This administration is one giant cluster f#ck, train wreck, circle jerk.
yea, but at least it can multitask
Well....there is only one thing Trump can multitask at....running his mouth in both directions at once.
Well, fortunately, Trump isn’t anybody’s doctor, so he personally won’t be prescribing anything for anyone. However, if it does turn out that doctors want to use this medicine, there will be a lot of demand. My hope is that a meeting like this would be with an eye toward boosting production in a timely manner. I hope a similar effort is made for any other potential treatments.
Tacos, i truly hope this drug can help people, but i'll take Fauci's words and expertise on the drug over the "Dr." of economix anyday. I'm also curious how Trump can tout and push a drug that which has not been fully vetted and verified. He mentioned it like SIX times during that briefing.
Doctors decide if this drug is a patients best bet or not. Carnival acts are not who one should accept medical advice from. It is a little bit concerning that Trump also owns stock in this drugs manufacturer. So he actually stands to profit if the drug actually does work, and we are all hopeful it will, but an awful strange pushing of ONE singular possible tool to combat this mess.
And i am all for trying whatever without the full normal wait time, as long as Fauci is the one calling for it, and not Trump or someone with a doctorite in economics.
Oh for sure, but at the end of the day, all either of them have really said about it is that it might work. Even Trump, as enthusiastic as he sometimes is, has made no declarations of it being some kind of cure. Neither one of them will be making medical choices for anyone, though.
Dr. Fauci is a scientist. It's long proven to be safe. He wants to test it until it's 100% certain that it works. That should take about 6 months. By that time, all of the patients who need it will be DEAD.
Fauci will never call for that. He's spent his working life enforcing the rules of the FDA. Throwing those rules away, for any reason, would violate everything that he believes in. Luckily, the doctor is not the person in charge. The man who is in charge believes that throwing the rules out the window, when there is no added risk to the patients, has to be done for the purpose of keeping people alive. Trump's attitude is, if it's safe and might work, throw it into the mix and see if it does. If it doesn't, we have lost nothing.
6 months? LOL try again.
"You may find this interesting," he told the CNN host. "In the city that you live in, in New York, in the New York health and hospitals system, virtually every patient now that comes in presenting COVID-19 symptoms is given a cycle of hydroxychloroquine, and when I discussed this last night with Mitch Katz, who is the head of that system, I asked him, are you doing that because the federal government is telling you or because you think it may work? And he said quite clearly that it may work."
who cares...
they blame trump for not getting ahead of the problem back when fauci said it was not transferable from human to human.
but when trump gets ahead of the problem and fauci with a possible treatment? they get all upset... LOL
30 million doses already added to the national stockpile
NY is undergoing trials as we speak
as always my advice is ignore the liberal bs, we will know what's what soon enough.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) today accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate donated by Sandoz, the Novartis generics and biosimilars division, and one million doses of Resochin (medical grade chloroquine phosphate)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration ( FDA ) issued an Emergency Use Authorization ( EUA ) to BARDA to allow hydroxychloroquine sulfate and Resochin donated to the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to be distributed and prescribed by doctors to hospitalized teen and adult patients with COVID-19, as appropriate, when a clinical trial is not available or feasible.
"You may find this interesting," he told the CNN host. "In the city that you live in, in New York, in the New York health and hospitals system, virtually every patient now that comes in presenting COVID-19 symptoms is given a cycle of hydroxychloroquine, and when I discussed this last night with Mitch Katz, who is the head of that system, I asked him, are you doing that because the federal government is telling you or because you think it may work? And he said quite clearly that it may work."
Mar 25, 2020, 04:31am EDT Forbes.com
Hydroxychloroquine Use For COVID-19 Coronavirus Shows No Benefit In First Small—But Limited—Controlled Trial
Results from the first controlled study of hydroxychloroquine for treating COVID-19 showed no significant difference in outcomes between those who received the drug and those who received usual care.
The study will continue, but the answer lies along a different path. It might be something as simple as alkalizing the blood pH can help the patient. That can be done with Hydroxychloroquine, but regular aspirin will do that much better.
Everyone needs to stop jumping to conclusions especially the president. The only way we are going to beat this virus is through shear thoroughly grinding hard work.
Do you 'righties' really believe the ones who HAVEN'T been Left behind would rather see people DIE than Trump profit ?
I am for WHATEVER proves might work. A huge majority of Dr.s are against the use of this drug. Why is that do you think ? ..
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I'm for trying ANYTHING that proves to help that ones DOCTOR recommends.
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There ARE side F X that CAN'T be ignored!
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So get over yourselves. All of US want a cure and partisanship is not going to get in the way of an ACTUAL CURE, which this so far, has not yet proven to be. Time will tell.
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On another note on the incompetent one in chief, how did Peter Navarough write those memos where he projected possible needs for medical supplies and one to two million DEAD from this pandemic back in February, while Trump was still claimin "latest Democratic hoax", you can still go to work, we have this under control, etc ?
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Trump downplayed this from the day he was briefed, and STILL DOES.
He has screwed up and confused so many, it is truly concerning.
When is the 'right' going to admit this ?
I will admit... the left has been confused for over a decade now.
nothing we can do about that.