Emails obtained by Vanity Fair show a frenzied behind the scenes effort inside the Trump White House to pressure health experts to import and distribute chloroquine drugs for Covid-19.
Leaked emails detail how Trump White House appointees pressured government health officials to make chloroquine widely available to the public, according to Vanity Fair.The emails shed light on claims by the government's top vaccine expert that he was removed for refusing to suspend regulations on chloroquine.
But Trump's public comments touting the drug as a "game changer" have helped to trigger a worldwide shortage of the drugs, in spite of warnings from American and international scientific groups about potentially deadly side effects. On March 24, a internal panel of top government health experts warned the White House against making chloroquine available to the public outside of clinical trials, saying its safety was "not supported by data from reliable clinical trials or from non-human primates," according to Vanity Fair.
"Hospitals have it. Sick out patients don't. And can't get. So go through distribution channels as we discussed. If we have 29 million perhaps send a few million ASAP? WH wants follow up in AM," wrote Giroir, according to Vanity Fair.Oracle In response to Vanity Fair's reporting, an HHS spokesperson said the agency ultimately decided against the plan. Trump has not mentioned chloroquine as a treatment for Covid-19 during his daily briefings for nearly a week. The White House didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.The emails also shed light on explosive new allegations this week by Dr.
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