The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday granted emergency authorization for the antibody treatment administered to and later praised by President Trump for his past COVID-19 diagnosis.
The antibody cocktail from Regeneron is authorized for treating mild to moderate COVID-19 in adults, as well as pediatric patients at least 12 years old who have a high risk of progressing to severe disease.
The company said it could have enough doses for around 80,000 patients by the end of November, and enough for approximately 300,000 patients in total by the end of January.
The reality is that Regeneron, Hydroxychloroquine, and other drug cocktails have been successfully used by multiple countries in Europe, Asia, and elsewhere. The reality is that some of these same drugs were used successfully here in the United States to treat Covid viruses in the past.
The fact that our country has pretty much refused to "treat" Covid has been an ongoing problem. If there is an area where our county mismanaged our Covid response, it's not that we didn't wear enough masks, social distance, or otherwise shut more things down. Our mismanagement would come from having literally no consistent guidance from anyone as to how or when to treat this.
So the question really becomes... why when so many other countries found success with treatments, when he have had success in the past with treating other Covid viruses, have we ultimately fought tooth and nail against anything other than just "isolation" of those who tested positive? Why was it that so many of "our" experts took a different course than previous experts and other experts in other countries?
Moreover, why were these so called experts so passionately against, if not venomously against these treatments? Why were they willing to just do "nothing" rather than "something" when it came to treatment? Why did they continue to ignore study after study showing these treatments working elsewhere, while relying on studies that were incomplete, irrelevant, or set up to fail.
Yet here we are, 260,000 deaths later and we are finally getting around to approving a no-brainer treatment that could have prevented thousands or even tens of thousands of deaths. Talk about a day late and a dollar short.
The answer to this is that this is 2020 and politics and partisanship rules.
Obviously we know that Trump has touted the idea of treatments from word go. According to polling, most Republicans were on board with the idea of treatments, and were more than willing to take treatments if made available. Democrats on the other hand, pretty much disagree with Trump as a matter of principle, meaning that they were kneejerk against treatment. Their Party line was all about preventative actions (shut downs, mandates, regulations, isolation). Polling showed that they were against taking any treatments, just as many Democrats are (for reasons obviously associated with TDS) against taking a vaccine that was developed during the Trump term.
Let's be clear. This proves the power that politics has over substance. We all know that the media will push the Democratic line of rhetoric 24-7. We also know that there are plenty of deep state players willing to do the same. Bottom line is that most Government employees are Democrats. While politics and science shouldn't mix, it does all the time. From "global warming scientists" who are still predicting the end of the world to "social scientists" who have managed to find 37 genders and systemic racism around every corner, politics is front and center.
But make no mistake, most these decisions regarding drug treatments and choices these experts pushed were not "scientific" at all. These were ultimately political and designed to appease certain people. If the opposition to these drugs was based on "science" then the FDA would not have reversed positions on these drugs over time. If this was based on "science" then that science would have been consistent with past science and the science that other countries are using. To suggest these decisions were made on science is to suggest that "science" in 2020 in the United States is different from "science" from other time periods and "science" from other parts of the world.
The only real question here is simple. How many Americans died because of politics?
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Excellent News.
The Socialist Democrat the Party of Anti-vax have a choice to make.
All three of The Socialist Stooges of CHT are in the high risk group..
I pray Biden takes it, don't want him to die before "curing cancer".
denial of anything that could be perceived as a 'victory' for Trump was always paramount.
democrats never had a problem with leaving millions to suffer and in some cases die just as long as Trump was prevented from helping them.
we here in NY will probably be the last to get access to the vaccine simply because Killer Cuomo demands the right to be an asshole about it. and for that we award him an Emmy.
i sincerely hope that Trump sets as many traps as possible for the incoming administration.
The lame duck President is irrelevant. He is playing golf and tweeting hundreds of lies per day while 1,200 American people die.
The President elect Joe Biden has a plan.
Implement Widespread Testing-and-Tracing
The Trump Fiasco: The failure to test swiftly and broadly led to the failure to get the virus under control. After deflecting blame for months, Donald Trump has repeatedly doubled down on his orders to slow down testing. It is unacceptable that with cases surging in some parts of the country and Americans urged to go back to work in others, we still do not have the basic capacity in testing and contact tracing we need to sustainably manage this virus. In Arizona, this past week, Americans with COVID-19 have had to wait in baking hot cars in miles-long lines for a test, and those were the lucky ones who had an appointment. In March, Donald Trump claimed that every American who wanted a test could get one. It was a lie then. It’s still a lie.
The Biden Plan:
Stand up a Pandemic Testing Board to massively surge a nationwide campaign and guarantee regular, reliable, and free access to testing for all, including every worker called back on the job .Double the number of drive-through testing sites and increase the numbers until there are no more lines.Build a national contact tracing workforce, starting by hiring at least 100,000 Americans and equipping sorely under-resourced public health departments with the resources they need to spot and stop outbreaks.
Establish Sustainable Supply Chain for PPE and Supplies and Help for Health Care Workers:
The Trump Fiasco: Months into this crisis, our health care workers are still forced to scramble for their own supplies and reuse masks and other personal protective equipment (PPE) shift-after-shift. Hundreds of health care workers have died from COVID-19, and tens of thousands have been infected. This is heartbreaking — and a catastrophic failure of leadership. Health care workers put their lives on the line every day, and the risk they face is unacceptably compounded by the inconsistent and politicized response to expert guidance, like social distancing and masks. Trump has abdicated responsibility, and turned his back on health care workers in their time of need.
The Biden Plan:
Implement a coordinated, country-wide, future-facing national effort to acquire, produce, and distribute PPE, test kits and machines, lab supplies, and other critical supplies, including by fully utilizing the authorities under the Defense Production Action. Identify tomorrow’s needs for PPE, lab reagents, and test supplies when they run low, as well as replenish depleted supplies in hard-hit areas, especially for federally qualified health centers, rural health clinics, safety-net hospitals, and nursing homes, which are typically resource-poor and disproportionately serve vulnerable populations that are bearing the brunt of COVID-19. Build now toward a future, flexible American-sourced and manufactured capability to ensure we are not vulnerable to supply chain disruptions in times of crisis.
In addition, Biden would ensure the U.S. government steps up for nurses, doctors and other health care workers and first responders, including by providing:
Guaranteed priority access to national supplies of PPE.Premium Pay for health care workers for putting themselves at risk. There is no substitute for ensuring the safety of health care workers, but as Biden has said, everyone who puts their lives on the line should receive a boost in their paychecks. Emergency paid leave, which Biden has called for anyone who gets COVID-19 or needs to care for a loved one who has it.Free, accessible, and safe housing to enable health care workers to quarantine away from their loved ones as necessary.A Health Care Worker COVID-19 Consultation Hotline and strengthened clinician peer-to-peer learning, so that frontline staff do not have to rely on social media to learn best practices in treating COVID-19 patients.Access to an array of prevention and early intervention mental health services, including health-status monitoring, emotional-health support and psychological first aid, to every COVID-19 health care worker. Seeking help should not impact your current or future employment, including your ability to get a license. This is in addition to Biden’s robust commitment to ensuring every American has access to mental health insurance coverage and expanding immediate access to telemental health services by requiring all carriers — not just Medicare — to pay for telemental health services. There should be no barrier to mental health care in this crisis – none.The mobilization of health care workers nationwide, including assessing areas of need, developing a registry of volunteers, and ensuring that staffing gaps are voluntarily filled in a safe, sustainable way.
the 'biden plan' is a carbon copy of the Trump plan.
LOL.
good one, alky.
Trump promised to have a replacement for Obamacare.
In 59 days the President will improve the ACA. Something the lame duck President failed to do
Our elite betters wonder why we don’t trust their “scientific” authority, but let’s roll back the tape to this May 15 story from NBC News, which they called a “fact check:”
Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a ‘miracle’ to be right.
President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.
“We’re looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before,” Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration’s efforts to fast-track a vaccine. “Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” Trump tweeted on Thursday. “I think we’re going to have a vaccine by the end of the year,” he told reporters later in the day.
But experts say that the development, testing and production of a vaccine for the public is still at least 12 to 18 months off, and that anything less would be a medical miracle.
Funny how often Trump turns out to be right about something the “experts” dismissed as outlandish and irresponsible. Start with moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Yeah, the violent unrest in the Middle East in the aftermath of that provocative move still hasn’t abated. What’s that? Oh, never mind.
Pro tip: Whenever a major media organization calls something a “fact check,” you’re usually safe to assume that the story is wrong. Meanwhile, our “experts” will go on experting.
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2020/11/why-we-have-the-worst-experts-chapter-12186.php
The Republican party didn't have an agenda, because they were aware that the lame duck President wouldn't follow through.
Using fake news robotics websites are a troll squad asshole's last resort.
Rat...
Liberals would have to be capable of paying attention to see the difference. They are sheeple who kiss the ass NYT reporters and lick the knee high boots of Joe Biden, because they are told to!
denial of anything that could be perceived as a 'victory' for Trump was always paramount.
You and Lil Schitty denying trump lost is paramount to trumps attempt to remain in office in spite of the constitution!!!!!
Blogger Roger Amick said...
Using fake news robotics websites are a troll squad asshole's last resort.
says the geriatric alcoholic asswipe who can't muster a multi-sentence comment without plagiarizing it.
If the administration had taken the covid virus seriously, we will never know how many lives would have been saved.
Eric Trump claimed earlier this year that COVID-19 would disappear after Election Day on November 3 in an appearance on Fox News. The sentiment has since been echoed repeatedly on social media among the President’s most loyal followers for months, suggesting that the urgency surrounding the virus was a ‘Democrat Hoax.’
Scott, seriously you should think about the President is refusing to accept that he lost the election.
His failure to cooperate with the President elect on the distribution of hundreds of million immunizations is a dereliction of duty that will cost thousands of lives!
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