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Trump, after wrapping up another weekend at his Virginia golf club, apparently preparing to highlight an unproven coronavirus treatment in a reality-show styled kickoff of his RNC convention week. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1297587881607864326
Voice of America--which has recently been taken over by a Trump loyalist--is already pushing the pre convention rollout. https://www.voanews.com/covid-19-pandemic/white-house-breakthrough-coming-coronavirus-treatment
More on this just now from StatNews "FDA, under pressure from Trump, expected to authorize blood plasma as Covid-19 treatment" https://www.statnews.com/2020/08/23/fda-under-pressure-from-trump-expected-to-authorize-blood-plasma-as-covid-19-treatment/
This would come--if it happens as STAT suggests--just a few days after FDA put the treatment on hold. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/us/politics/blood-plasma-covid-19.html?auth=login-google
FDA bows to Trump and gives him the political headline he wanted
This is from a few days ago "Blood Plasma Treatment for Covid-19 Now on Hold at F.D.A." How in a matter of days does the FDA change its position on this? https://nyti.ms/2Q7q2BT
