Today, Donald Trump announced he was pushing the FDA to issue an emergency use authorization (EUA) for convalescent plasma despite the objections of doctors and experts.
In response, Protect Our Care’s Coronavirus War Room Director Zac Petkanas released the following statement:
“The politicization of an independent agency we rely on during times of crisis is a danger to public health and a terrifying abuse of power.
“Let’s be clear: Trump’s bullying of the FDA to come up with an unproven miracle cure right before the Republican National Convention and just in time for Election Day is simply playing politics with American lives.
“Unfortunately, this is only the latest example of Trump undercutting his own experts to push dangerous or unproven science, a tactic he’s deployed since the beginning of this pandemic and one that has worsened outcomes for the American people at every turn.
“Failure to listen to the experts and putting his personal politics above the nations health, hawking the supposed miracle cure hydroxychloroquine and suggesting families should consume disinfectant, is the exact type of behavior that has gotten more than 175,000 Americans killed and continues to allow the virus to rage out of control in the US.
“We should let the doctors and experts work freely and without the corrupting influence of politics that’s at the core of Trump’s meddling. Otherwise, we will only see more of the suffering that will stain the Trump Administration for the rest of American history.”
What’s being said about Trump’s announcement:
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