Posted on 03/19/2020 2:04:49 PM PDT by Hojczyk
During his press conference on Thursday, President Donald Trump said that he told the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to lift rules and bureaucracy to help combat the COVID-19 epidemic. He also directed the agency to make experimental drugs, such as those used to treat malaria, available.
“I have directed the FDA to eliminate rules and bureaucracy so work can proceed rapidly, quickly and fast,” the president said, as reported by Fox News. “We have to remove every barrier or a lot of barriers that were unnecessary and they’ve done that to get the rapid deployment of safe, effective treatments and we think we have some good answers.”
FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, however, promised that the FDA will still work to ensure that “products are safe and effective” while saying the agency will explore other options for COVID-19 therapy.
“The FDA is committed to continuing to provide regulatory flexibility and guidance, but let me make one thing clear: the FDA’s responsibility to the American people is to ensure that products are safe and effective,” he said, as reported by CNN. “We need to make sure that this sea of new treatments — we’ll get the right drug to the right patient at the right dosage at the right time.”
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this material is safe and the levels that influence
vision are well known.
The FDA head should be fired if he hesitates.
Looks like the CDC and FDA..new about this in January and were asleep..or went at there slow pace
The FDA give up some of its power?? CDC has the same problem.
My idiot brother in law almost died taking that stuff because he wouldn’t go to the doctor with pneumonia.
“Safe and effective” while thousands die.
Easier said than done.
FDA is a disgrace..but not nearly as bad as CDC
“...proceed rapidly, quickly and fast...”
Warp speed, Scotty!
“Rapidly, quickly, and fast.”
Trying to cypher the nuances there. Reckon its an appellation upon which the three reinforce each other.
Wouldn’t you like to be at the first Trump rally after his team whips this virus?
FDA deeply saddened.
The Center for Disease Control doesn’t seem to have been prepared to control disease.
The only thing that our federal bureaucracies do well is fighting off efforts to get them to be proactive, accountable and responsive.
“Safe and effective” while thousands die.
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Exactly. As they die cowering in their houses hiding from an invisible threat as trillions of dollars pour from government coffers and businesses go under. But hey...the FDA is on top of it!
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So much MISUNDERSTANDING on this issue and the process. Any doctor who requests approval to treat a Coronavirus patient with Chloroquine (or a generic version of hydroxychloroquine) will have that request APPROVED IMMEDIATELY AND AUTOMATICALLY. As part of that quick and simple request the FDA will simply record it and the treatment results will later be collected? WTF is wrong with that process that will gather NEEDED DATA ON THE DRUG’S EFFICACY?
We already know dosing....
I’ve been saying that for a while.
The CDC and FEMA had decades to prepare for a pandemic.
Its obvious that they didn’t really have a plan.
“...proceed rapidly, quickly and fast...”
Warp speed, Scotty!
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IMMEDIATELY AND AUTOMATICALLY is pretty damn fast. Trump’s got this, my FRiend. He’s on it and has the bureaucracy toeing his line.
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