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The White House is organizing an ordinary public crusade against the Food and Drug Administration to accelerate its review of possible coronavirus remedies and vaccines.
Appearing on Sunday’s communication programs, Mark Meadows, the White House staff leader, amplified an indictment Trump made on Twitter Saturday, when the president claimed a “deep state” in the F.D.A. deliberately politically delayed drug trials.
Without evidence, Trump said the agency, which is guilty of passing the new drugs, “hoped to delay the reaction after November 3,” on Election Day, and suggested to his officials “focus on speed and save lives.”
The tweet provoked negative reactions from Democrats and some fitness experts, who warned that the president was looking to bypass the guards on whom regulators depend to make certain medications and remedies effective.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says Mr. Trump is “very dangerous.”
“Even for him,” he said Saturday at a press conference, “it went beyond the limits, in terms of how it would jeopardize the physical condition and well-being of the American people,” the F.D.A. said. Said. of politics, when it was he who tried to inject himself into the administration’s clinical decisions.
Trump’s handling of the pandemic has accused him politically, and his complaint was a major theme of the Democratic National Convention last week. With the Republican National Convention beginning Monday, his team is under pressure to replace the narrative.
Dr. Scott Gotlieb, former F.D.A. Commissioner, he defended the firm and its employees, saying that rigorous science, politics, guides the procedure for approving possible vaccines.
“I strongly reject the concept that they would delay something, or promote anything, on the basis of any kind of political consideration, and any consideration, other than public aptitude and a genuine sense of project towards patients. “Dr. Gottlieb said on Sunday in “Face the Nation.”
In his television appearances, Meadows has avoided questions about Trump’s accusation of political bias, saying the president was only pressuring professional bureaucrats to make progress in treatment.
“I had to make sure they felt the heat,” Meadows said on ABC’s “This Week.” “If they don’t see the light, they want to feel the heat, because the other Americans are suffering.”
In “Fox News Sunday,” Meadows cited the announcement Trump plans to make Sunday night in what the White House calls “a primary healing advance,” adding details.
“It should have been done several weeks ago,” Meadows said. “It’s a breakup with other people in the federal government.
Meadows said Trump wasn’t looking to “cut spending,” but that he had “genuine frustration with some of the bureaucrats who think they can do it the way they do.”
“We are faced with unprecedented times that require unprecedented action,” he said. “The president must say so.”
Dr. Gottlieb said Trump’s announcement is likely to be for convalescent plasma, a possible remedy for the Covid-19 that has shown promise. The F.D.A. was preparing last week to include an emergency authorization for therapy, but subsidized after an organization of senior federal officials, adding Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, argued that knowledge of emerging remedies was still too weak, according to two senior officials.
An emergency authorization would make it more difficult to recruit participants for randomized trials, in which some would get plasma placebos.
Dr. Gottlieb said that, more than a breakthrough, convalescence plasma is a “progressive” remedy that is already widely available and used in 70,000 patients nationwide. An emergency authorization from the F.D.A., he said, would likely increase access to the remedy and allow plasma brands to recover their costs, but it would not replace the situation.
“The incremental gains are here, but we want to see them for what they are,” he said.
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