FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn speaks with NPR's David Greene about the development of a vaccine and the use of existing drugs to treat COVID-19. Here, a transcript of their full interview.
Right. And, David, thank you for commenting on that. We're looking at repurpose drugs. So as I mentioned yesterday, innovators around the world, the country, are coming forward with potential ideas and we're looking at all of them. And what we'll do — what we can do — is if there is an already approved drug, the good news about that is that we have an understanding of its safety profile.Chloroquine. That's right.
Soshould they? I mean, are you telling them that they should if they have a patient who is really suffering? Can I just ask Dr. Hahn, I mean, the president talked about clearing red tape yesterday. What is one specific example of some red tape that he has cleared for your agency? I mean, hospitals and labs needed that decision from the FDA, which you made at the end of February. Why couldn't that same decision have been made in January if you knew that this was such a crisis?
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