This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump, faced with multiple crises and falling poll numbers less than five months before the presidential election, is prodding top health officials to move faster on a by year’s end.The goal is to instill confidence among voters that the under Trump’s stewardship.In a meeting last month with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar — who is overseeing the effort , along with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper — Trump pushed Azar repeatedly to speed up the already unprecedented timeline, according to two senior...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump, faced with multiple crises and falling poll numbers less than five months before the presidential election, is prodding top health officials to move faster on a by year’s end.The goal is to instill confidence among voters that the under Trump’s stewardship.In a meeting last month with Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar — who is overseeing the effort , along with Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper — Trump pushed Azar repeatedly to speed up the already unprecedented timeline, according to two senior...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Hydroxychloroquine did not prevent healthy people exposed to someone with covid-19 from getting the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a study being published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The study is the first randomized clinical trial that tested the antimalarial drug as a preventive measure, according to researchers at the University of...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by Hydroxychloroquine did not prevent healthy people exposed to someone with covid-19 from getting the disease caused by the coronavirus, according to a study being published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.The study is the first randomized clinical trial that tested the antimalarial drug as a preventive measure, according to researchers at the University of...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs that President Trump repeatedly promoted for treatment of covid-19, reversing a decision that led to harsh criticism it had put politics ahead of science.The FDA said Monday the medications “were unlikely to be effective” for covid-19 and that any potential benefits were outweighed by safety risks, including heart problems. The decision was from Denise Hinton, the agency’s chief scientist, to Gary...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Food and Drug Administration withdrew its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, drugs that President Trump repeatedly promoted for treatment of covid-19, reversing a decision that led to harsh criticism it had put politics ahead of science.The FDA said Monday the medications “were unlikely to be effective” for covid-19 and that any potential benefits were outweighed by safety risks, including heart problems. The decision was from Denise Hinton, the agency’s chief scientist, to Gary...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThree of the authors of a study that found the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was dangerous for hospitalized covid-19 patients retracted it Thursday, saying they could “no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources.”The retraction notice was posted by the medical journal Lancet, which had published the study on May 22., purportedly based on the health records of almost 100,000 patients around the world, found that hospitalized covid-19 patients treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine — a...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThree of the authors of a study that found the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine was dangerous for hospitalized covid-19 patients retracted it Thursday, saying they could “no longer vouch for the veracity of the primary data sources.”The retraction notice was posted by the medical journal Lancet, which had published the study on May 22., purportedly based on the health records of almost 100,000 patients around the world, found that hospitalized covid-19 patients treated with the antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine — a...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration mishandled the initial distribution of the only approved coronavirus medication, delaying treatment to some critically ill patients with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to nine current and former senior administration officials. remdesivir, was distributed in early May — in some cases to the wrong hospitals, to hospitals with no intensive care units and therefore no eligible patients, and to facilities without the needed refrigeration to store it, meaning some had to be...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Trump administration mishandled the initial distribution of the only approved coronavirus medication, delaying treatment to some critically ill patients with covid-19, the disease caused by the virus, according to nine current and former senior administration officials. remdesivir, was distributed in early May — in some cases to the wrong hospitals, to hospitals with no intensive care units and therefore no eligible patients, and to facilities without the needed refrigeration to store it, meaning some had to be...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization Friday that will allow doctors to use Gilead Sciences’ drug remdesivir to treat patients who are hospitalized with serious cases of covid-19.The limited approval allows the antiviral drug, which is administered intravenously, to be used to treat the disease in adults and children hospitalized with severe disease, which is defined as patients with low blood oxygen levels or needing oxygen therapy or a mechanical ventilator. Such an approval allows the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization Friday that will allow doctors to use Gilead Sciences’ drug remdesivir to treat patients who are hospitalized with serious cases of covid-19.The limited approval allows the antiviral drug, which is administered intravenously, to be used to treat the disease in adults and children hospitalized with severe disease, which is defined as patients with low blood oxygen levels or needing oxygen therapy or a mechanical ventilator. Such an approval allows the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by U.S. deaths from covid-19 passed 60,000 on Wednesday, a figure President Trump had once projected would be the upper limit, as hopes rose for a drug treatment that the top U.S. infectious-disease expert said has shown a clear benefit in an early trial.Trump welcomed the promising early signs that an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, can be effective in speeding the...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by U.S. deaths from covid-19 passed 60,000 on Wednesday, a figure President Trump had once projected would be the upper limit, as hopes rose for a drug treatment that the top U.S. infectious-disease expert said has shown a clear benefit in an early trial.Trump welcomed the promising early signs that an experimental antiviral drug, remdesivir, can be effective in speeding the...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by President Trump formally unveiled an initiative Friday afternoon aimed at making hundreds of millions of doses of a broadly available by year’s end — a goal that many scientists say is unrealistic and could even backfire by shortchanging safety and more broadly.The Rose Garden news conference added to a week of confusing and contradictory remarks about the prospects and...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThis article is free to access.Why?The Washington Post is providing this news free to all readers as a public service.Follow this story and more by President Trump formally unveiled an initiative Friday afternoon aimed at making hundreds of millions of doses of a broadly available by year’s end — a goal that many scientists say is unrealistic and could even backfire by shortchanging safety and more broadly.The Rose Garden news conference added to a week of confusing and contradictory remarks about the prospects and...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump left an elite medical center Monday evening, even as his doctors acknowledged that they were entering “uncharted territory” and — citing privacy laws — continued to withhold information that could illuminate the president’s prognosis for recovering from covid-19.Trump’s determination to appear in control in the waning weeks of the presidential race left unclear whether he or his doctors were calling the shots, especially because members of his medical team at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift SharePresident Trump left an elite medical center Monday evening, even as his doctors acknowledged that they were entering “uncharted territory” and — citing privacy laws — continued to withhold information that could illuminate the president’s prognosis for recovering from covid-19.Trump’s determination to appear in control in the waning weeks of the presidential race left unclear whether he or his doctors were calling the shots, especially because members of his medical team at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center...WW…

This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe government’s top cancer doctor warned Thursday that because of the coronavirus pandemic are likely to result in thousands of “excess” deaths from the disease in coming years.Norman “Ned” Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, said new estimates by the institute show there will be 10,000 more breast and colorectal cancer deaths over the next decade than would have been expected without the coronavirus. Those deaths represent about a 1 percent increase in the almost 1 million deaths expected from those...…This article was published more than 2 years agoCommentGift ShareThe government’s top cancer doctor warned Thursday that because of the coronavirus pandemic are likely to result in thousands of “excess” deaths from the disease in coming years.Norman “Ned” Sharpless, director of the National Cancer Institute, said new estimates by the institute show there will be 10,000 more breast and colorectal cancer deaths over the next decade than would have been expected without the coronavirus. Those deaths represent about a 1 percent increase in the almost 1 million deaths expected from those...WW…