Posted on 08/07/2014 8:59:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
President Obama hedged on an ethics question about whether Africans should receive the same experimental drug that put two Americans stricken with Ebola on the path to recovery, telling reporters at the conclusion of the U.S.-African Leaders Summit that efforts to rein in the disease should focus on prevention instead.
But as the epidemic grows within West Africa, the Arab world saw its first possible Ebola death as a businessman in his 40s returning to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, from Sierra Leone died two days after being admitted to King Fahd Hospital with symptoms of viral hemorrhagic fever.
Saudi Arabia had already banned pilgrims from affected countries from making the hajj to Mecca. Arab News reported that officials there retraced the businessman’s steps and are now monitoring people he contacted before checking into the hospital.
Two American healthcare workers who were aiding Ebola victims in Liberia were gravely ill before receiving the experimental serum, ZMapp, which had only been tested on animals by San Diego company Mapp Biopharmaceutical. They are now recovering at Emory University Hospital in Atlanta.
“I think we’ve got to let the science guide us,” Obama said at a press conference this evening when asked if the FDA should fast-track approval and perhaps save lives in Africa as well. “And you know, I don’t think all the information is in on whether this drug is helpful.”
Nigerian officials are reportedly interested in acquiring the drug. The doctor who treated American Patrick Sawyer, a Liberian government official who died in the country after flying into Lagos, is now ill with Ebola and eight other cases are confirmed or probable.
The World Health Organization announced today it would convene a panel of medical ethicists next week to discuss if the drug should be used on others and who should receive it.
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who much = how much
LOL, which means I don't want to give what we have to Africa, you do.
To be calling for giving our unknown numbers of doses to Africa right now is insane.
Even if they did fast track it, how would the African countries pay for it? Oh wait...
No, they're less than 3% of our imports. Which means they provide something like 1% of our total supply.
if it were an abortion pill he would fast-track it just like slick willie did.
That’s good to know.
Now that we’ve basically told them to sod off.
Your simplistic, factually challenged accusations do you no credit. In your mind, there must be something like 2 or 3 more doses, and no way to make more. So you want to hoard them. Fine.
You also believe, evidently, that under those circumstances I would advocate sending all 2 or 3 doses to Africa. An assumption that idiotic should never be addressed. It will only make two people look stupid, as opposed to one.
In the real world, things are not always so simplistic. But if you can’t figure that out for yourself, there is no use discussing it. If I had all the time in the world—which I don’t—I’d still find thousands of better uses for it than that.
What he is trying to do is stop the possibility of creating Zombies. This drug will cure most people but the residual few will, after a time, die but become the undead. Obama recognizes this very real possibility (it has been clearly demonstrated in movies) and does not want to participate in their creation. He is rightfully so worried about his legacy and does not want to be known as the Zombie President.
No blame is or can be positively assigned to non-action,
but blame can be attributed to any action resulting in harm or death.
That’s why lifesaving drugs take so long to get approved.
No one can directly blame the FDA for holding a drug back,
but if they let one out that kills .00001% of the recipients,
there is direct attribution.
He is correct about this, now is no time to be shipping whatever doses we have, to Africa.
You are wrong.
Well, they have to do something! AIDs has not been very successful and they have tried everything else.(sarc)
It all depends on how much serum has already been manufactured and how long it takes to make more.
Yes, Aids, malaria and abortion have not done the trick for them to downsize the population. Oh, but we have the TB coming into this country now, so we can add that to the earth cleansing.
Now you are sounding more sane.
Post 17 was really a mistake.
Prevention?
More like Population Control.
I only wrote in this most recent post what I’ve written in several prior posts—all of which you derided. Be nice if you could make up your mind.
Oh, & since you are so sure Obama is “right”, let me ask you this. Did he say, ‘We are ramping our production up to full capacity, and as soon as we safely can we will share out anti-Ebola serum with Africa’?
Because the above is what a person who cares would say & do. Not so a sociopath. A sociopath does not care. Therefore he does not do everything possible to help in an epidemic. So long as he is safe, He Does Not Care.
You are totally wrong, and the president is right on this, but you seem to be catching on in your later posts, as you back off your incredibly stupid post.
What exactly is your problem? Is English your second or, more likely, third or fourth language? You didn’t understand my first post and you haven’t understood any of my subsequent posts. It’s staggering.
Also, a waste of time. Either you are incredibly dense or willfully missing the point. Both are a waste of time.
Now, since you believe the following:
‘the president is right on this’
answer this question. Did Obama specifically say he was requesting that the manufacture of the anti-Ebola serum be ramped up to maximum capacity? Did he say he was taking this action precisely so that, ASAP, we could share this experimental drug with those hardest hit by the epidemic?
Did he or didn’t he?
& stop dodging the question. You are convinced Obama is right. Stop tap dancing away from a simple question, then, and demonstrate Obama’s ‘rightness’ by answering it.
The president isn't wrong to not send our serum stock to Africa, he is right on this.
Your wanting to ship our supplies of this experimental serum to Africa, is just plain stupid.
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