Posted on 08/19/2020 7:20:02 AM PDT by rxsid
F.D.A.’s Emergency Approval of Blood Plasma Is Now on Hold
Government health leaders including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci urged caution last week, citing weak data from the country’s largest plasma study.
WASHINGTON — Last week, just as the Food and Drug Administration was preparing to issue an emergency authorization for blood plasma as a Covid-19 treatment, a group of top federal health officials including Dr. Francis S. Collins and Dr. Anthony S. Fauci intervened, arguing that emerging data on the treatment was too weak, according to two senior administration officials.
The authorization is on hold for now as more data is reviewed, according to H. Clifford Lane, the clinical director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. An emergency approval could still be issued in the near future, he said.
But clinical trials have not proved whether plasma can help people fighting the coronavirus.
Several top health officials — led by Dr. Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health; Dr. Fauci, the government’s top infectious disease expert; and Dr. Lane — urged their colleagues last week to hold off, citing recent data from the country’s largest plasma study, run by the Mayo Clinic. They thought the study’s data to date was not strong enough to warrant an emergency approval.
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F.D.A.’s Emergency Approval of Blood Plasma Is Now on Hold
But we put out the panicky urgent call for plasma, even getting Trump involved, which we will now sell to other patients.
Fauci is not gonna let ANYTHING happen that gets in between him and his vaccine royalty checks.
Oh, please.
Fauci contradicts himself every other day.
Who the h*ll believes this ancient clown any more?
Really.
Trump becomes more of an enabler with every day that goes by where he does not fire him.
Faci on new expensive drugs rushed through trials but showed some significant side effects: shows great promise, we need to work closely to get this to people.
I see a trend in his pronouncements.
He's obviously a bureaucrat ... a functionary ... a fraud.
Can’t have any kind of cure or do anything that would alleviate the FEAR holding us in power, now can we?
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/blood-plasma-covid-19.html
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wtf?
Dr Fauci’s vaccine investment portfolio says no plasma for you
For work done as a Federal employee, he isn't getting royalty checks.
Convalescent plasma (donated by someone who has recovered from COVID) is given to patients as a fairly late stage therapeutic. You don’t just give blood products to everyone and as such, may not be of great help.
I can see the full article. No log in required. In cases where there’s a paywall or log in required, you can go to archive.is and they usually already have it archived which removes any paywall/log in stuff. If not, paste the url in and it will archive it. Outline is another one, https://outline.com/
Interesting. Perhaps it's from where I surfed from. Not sure, don't recall, wasn't paying particular attention. Just know that the article required me to log in.
Now that I think about it, seems like sometimes I get the log in requirement, and other times I don't for the slimes (even without keeping log in credentials cached/remembered).
In any event, glad you didn't need to log in.
Re: Fauci is not gonna let ANYTHING happen that gets in between him and his vaccine royalty checks.
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Nor will Birx or Redfield nor for that matter Gates.
This is operation kovid kooties in a nutshell.
My wife’s infectious disease doctor told her in a video consultation just a day or so ago that he was using plasma to treat his Covid-19 patients and said it was proving effective.
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