With the coronavirus surging, Trump wants science to move far faster. It can’t
As the coronavirus pandemic takes hold, Trump’s impatience runs into the realities of drug development.
For about 20 minutes on Thursday, President Trump undermined six decades of dogma on the development of safe and effective drugs.
Trump, addressing a nation under shelter and quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic, said a new drug for Covid-19, yet to be proved safe and effective, was now “approved or very close to approved.” Another, also not approved for coronavirus, would be “available almost immediately,” in part because using it is “not going to kill anybody.”
Then, minutes later, the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Stephen Hahn, took the
