President Trump on Saturday suggested that his own FDA is making it difficult for drug companies to enroll people in clinical trials for vaccines and therapies to treat Covid-19, part of a 'deep state' plot to hinder his re-election prospects
government scientists for slow-walking convalescent plasma, a safe but unproven therapy, for political reasons. In that case, the FDA decided against authorizing emergency use of the plasma after scientists at the National Institutes of Health warned the clinical-trial data was still thin.” who believe the malaria drug is effective against Covid-19, despite numerous clinical trials that show it has no effect.
The series of tweets follow a week during which speakers at the Democratic National Convention lambasted the president’s handling of the virus, arguing that the death toll — now more than 175,000 — would not have been so high had Trump put science ahead of ego and politics.The FDA is not in charge of whether people enroll in a drug trial; that’s handled by the drug companies. But the agency does approve new therapies.
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