Posted on 03/30/2020 2:09:58 PM PDT by Red Badger
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost has had enough of the FDA's dithering over approval of an innovative process that could get millions of N95 masks to hospitals and other healthcare facilities, where they are in critically short supply as the Chinese coronavirus continues to stretch their resources. "If this isn't cleared up by morning, I'm ready to sue the FDA," Yost wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday afternoon.
What's the problem? Yost says the FDA is limiting the number of masks that an Ohio Company, Battelle Memorial Institute, can sterilize for reuse. The company has pioneered a technology that uses hydrogen peroxide vapor to make N95 masks safe for reuse and wants to ramp up production at their facility so they can send the masks where needed, but the FDA essentially shrugged and seemed to say, 'what's the big hurry?'
"The Food and Drug Administration -- after dithering all week -- finally gave Battelle approval to sterilize a measly 10,000 masks a day," Yost said. "They could be doing 160,000 per day."
And while the FDA dithers, grandmas across the nation are hunched over their sewing machines, heroically pumping out handmade masks to help fill the need for the critical protective masks.
"Gov. Mike DeWine has called the President. The FDA commissioner assured him that this would be taken care of. But as of this writing, the FDA has not moved," said Yost.
President Trump praised Battelle on Twitter Saturday, and urged the FDA to move quickly to approve increased production of the masks:
Highly recommended by Governor @MikeDeWine of Ohio. @FDA must move quickly! https://t.co/pLpI4CSs9H — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 29, 2020
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Meh
How about testing out masks in rice steamers?
DC used to have steam laundries.
#SlowingTheResponse
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It is gonna take a much bigger SHTF to get most people back to any idea of common sense.
The FDA didn’t sit on it for a week, SOMEONE in the FDA sat on it.
Sure wish accountability was a real thing.
Sheets and underwear elastic can survive 175 degree heat for 10 minutes.
I will try 200 degree heat when I bake a cake tomorrow.
Sue them. I see - How about ignore them or better yet do both
Trump needs to s-can the FDA and CDC when this is over.
I said this on another thread.
When this thing is over President Trump needs to order a top to bottom review of every single Agency, Department, Bureau or whatever and then gut them all like fish.
Leave them to bleed out without mercy.
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There’s the hospital accreditation organization - JCAH?
They’re big on accountability and not lovers of innovation.
The scientist and engineers at Battelle are top notch. They bring in the best minds from around the world to develop many new technologies. When I lived in Richland, Washington in 1997, where Battelle operates the Pacific NW National laboratory, my neighbors were a husband and wife team from Germany and they had just developed new batter technology which we all use today.
I bet your cakes taste like chit
Hate to break it to PJ, but there were many sewists that were much too young to grandmothers.
My attitude about government bureaucracies is very simple.
Never use a scalpel, always use a meat cleaver.
All hysteria. All the time!
JACHO is where ineptitude and career bureaucracy go to die.
I suspect many gov agencies are gonna be thoroughly examined by POTUS & Team America during his second term— full blood workup, full upper and lower GI, stress test, EKG, EEG...
When he wins in November, watch for a LOT of retirements.
FYI. Grandmas homemade masks are not allowed
NOT FDA approved.
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