Anonymous wrote:“So: Trump is getting his medical advice from CEOs, a TV doctor who has been assailed for promoting “quack treatments,” and Giuliani. One of Giuliani’s main sources of information on this topic is a guy who runs a company providing medical supplies to cruise ships and who was once sentenced to a year in jail for extorting Steven Seagal.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/07/real-reason-trump-is-obsessed-with-hydroxychloroquine/
Anonymous wrote:‘Dark money’ groups pushed Trump to back unproven COVID-19 treatment
“A conservative “dark money” group that received funding from the pharmaceutical industry’s largest trade organization pushed President Donald Trump to use unproven antimalarial drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19 and make it more widely available.
Last month, the conservative nonprofit group Job Creators Network collaborated with health care nonprofit Physicians for Reform to launch an online petition, a series of Facebook ads and a mass text message campaign urging Trump to make hydroxychloroquine available to treat patients battling COVID-19, Sludge reported. These groups do not disclose their sources of funding.”
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/04/dark-money-groups-pushed-trump-to-back-hydroxychloroquine/
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Maybe he hates someone with an autoimmune disorder and wants them to be handicapped because they can't get their drugs?
The money making angle seems more likely.
Nobody makes any money from hydroxychloroquine or chloroquine...they are generics. That's probably the issue in some circles...who wants a cheap solution when there are life savings to be drained from sick people?
Somebody is making money when the federal government buys a stockpile of millions and millions of pills.
These pills cost a few pennies each to make. Novartis donated 30 million of them to HHS. Compare that to other potential treatments like remdesivir, an experimental drug that costs about $1000. Or then there is the cost of an ICU stay which can be $10,000 per day or more.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.
Nice try.
SureI believe trump now. He and those around him would never lie. I wonder how many millions he is making off this? I bet he is selling ventilators and fake n95.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Well now we know why Trump keeps pushing this. He has a stake in the company. He has an interest in Sanofi, the French drugmaker that makes the drug. Like they say, follow the money. Oh, and major republican donors and Wilbur Ross have major stakes in the company. Silly us, we thought he just suggested it because he wanted to save lives.
Nice try.
I believe trump now. He and those around him would never lie. I wonder how many millions he is making off this? I bet he is selling ventilators and fake n95.