It’s a good thing that he’s such a stable genius who is out there pushing the latest unproven cure for the coronavirus against the advice of all the health experts or a whole bunch of people would be dying:
The Trump administration is encouraging regulators to allow a decades-old flu drug to be administered as a possible coronavirus treatment, despite career officials’ concerns about the risks and limited evidence that the drug would work as a coronavirus treatment, according to three officials with knowledge of the deliberations and internal documents reviewed by POLITICO.
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has championed the drug, Avigan, as a possible treatment, and clinical trials are now getting underway in Japan. Chinese scientists also have touted the drug, produced by Japan-based Fujifilm, as a potential coronavirus treatment, but global regulators and U.S. researchers have long expressed concern about the drug’s risks, such as birth defects, and have warned that the Chinese data is insufficient.
However, President Donald Trump has embraced a series of unproven drugs as possible coronavirus cures, saying that he has a hunch about anti-malaria drugs that the Food and Drug Administration rushed to authorize for emergency use this week despite scant evidence. Trump also has repeatedly discussed his efforts to encourage FDA approvals of drugs and devices this month, challenging FDA’s long-held stance as an apolitical, science-driven agency.
This ignorant insistence on spreading false hope and corrupting the scientific response based upon some fucking phone calls and Fox News morons may be the worst thing this ignorant monster has done in this whole thing. Pushing the “cure” is the way he thinks he will “win” by showing his cult that he’s a magical genius who saved the world.
I guess there’s nothing we can do about this stuff. The best we can hope for is that he doesn’t interfere too much with the people who are trying to save lives and lets the epidemiologists continue to issue the guidance that might flatten the curve. As for the rest, he’s going to keep using up valuable resources and wasting massive amounts of time. God, the energy it takes to keep this moron happy …
I didn’t think I could be shocked by him anymore but I confess that I didn’t see this one coming. Insisting that doctors use unproven cures based upon nothing more than his “feeling” (and juvenile belief that he can sell himself as the man who saved world ) really takes the cake.