Trump was having a fit last week that the FDA Deep State was refusing to fast track COVID therapies, obviously because the fool still thinks he can take credit for some miracle cure and be re-elected by acclamation. This was why:
On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that in light of the current lack of efficacy data, the FDA has put on hold plans to issue an Emergency Use Authorization to allow anyone with Covid-19 to be treated with convalescent plasma, even beyond the Mayo-led program.
The story is complicated but the upshot is that because our COVID response generally has been willy-nilly and without any of the normal scientific procedures, they’ve given the plasma to nearly 100,000 people but they have no idea if it works. Trump doesn’t care, of course. He just wants to be able to say he’s personally devised a miracle cure that means we can all ignore the virus and go back to normal.
Apparently, he managed to strong-arm the FDA into issuing the emergency Use Authorization on the eve of his convention so he can strut around like a demi-god who is supposedly saving the people from the “China virus.”
He’s holding another one of his “big announcements” tonight to announce that he’s ground the FDA’s nose into the dirt and forced them to issue this emergency use authorization for political purposes.
This should be very helpful in convincing people to take a vaccine.