President Trump on Saturday accused the Food and Drug Administration on Saturday of deliberately slow-moving COVID-19 treatments to jeopardize its chances of reelection in 2020. “The deep state, or whatever, at the FDA makes it very difficult for drug companies to get people to test the vaccines and therapeutics. Of …
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The U.S. has not yet had a “true second wave” of the coronavirus and the country could see a resurgence of the virus in the fall and winter, former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb told CNBC on Friday. “I think most people’s perception is that we had …
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The Trump administration will allow coronavirus testing developed by individual laboratories without using Food and Drug Administration (FDA) review, the administration announced Wednesday. Amtners told Politico and the Washington Post that decision came after Health and Human Services (HHS) ruled that the FDA does not have the authority to regulate …
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HOUSTON – COVID-19 treatment tests containing plasma are being halted after top federal health officials said they needed more data. Plasma is the yellow residue you see after blood comes out. According to researchers, potential life-saving antibodies live in the plasma of a person recovering from COVID-19. The idea is …
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US President Donald Trump raises questions during a briefing on the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic at the White House in Washington, August 11, 2020. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he was ‘surprised’ by the Food and Drug Administration’s hold on allocating emergency use for an …
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