The Trump administration's effort to rapidly launch a U.S. manufacturer for drugs to treat Covid-19 patients hinges on a new company whose CEO is best known for a failed anti-allergy injector and for raising the prices of a powerful opioid antidote
The Trump administration’s effort to rapidly launch a U.S. manufacturer for drugs to treat coronavirus patients hinges on a new company whose chief executive is best known for a failed anti-allergy injector and for raising the prices of a powerful opioid antidote.
Its CEO Eric Edwards previously helped create the drug company Kaleo to market Auvi-Q, which was supposed to compete with the EpiPen anti-allergy injection pen — but it was pulled from the market in 2015 over safety concerns. Kaleo brought it back to market in 2017. Edwards rejected such criticisms. "I was the co-founder and co-inventor of the Kaleo products that have saved thousands of lives," he told POLITICO. "I left Kaleo over 18 months ago and was never involved in any pricing decisions."
But a Phlow spokesperson said those drugs were produced at U.S. facilities owned by its partner Civica, a non-profit corporation founded by leading hospital systems that wanted to produce affordable generics and reduce chronic shortages. In early February, as the coronavirus spread within and beyond China, “there was a call with this basic sense of urgency from Peter Navarro’s office saying, ‘We’d like to come down and talk to you about this,’” said Gupton. “They brought basically a SWAT team from HHS, the Office of Management and Budget and the Department of Defense. We sat down on a Saturday afternoon.”
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