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🗓️ 2 September 2020
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0:00.0 | Last week, senators Ron Johnson, Mike Lee and Ted Cruz sent a letter to FDA head commissioner |
0:06.9 | Stephen Hahn. |
0:08.4 | And they were asking for all the studies and the medical papers used to inform the FDA |
0:12.9 | on hydroxychloroquine, had no clinical effect and maybe harmful. |
0:17.5 | And in the letter, quoted that they had talked to a lot of physicians. |
0:21.6 | They said the physicians are concerned that the FDA's actions regarding HCQ may be directly |
0:26.5 | costing lives by limiting outpatient access to this potentially beneficial treatment. |
0:31.0 | Now, that was last week. |
0:32.4 | Those were due by the 25th of August. |
0:35.5 | So presumably, all that data is in the hands of these senators and they're going through |
0:40.4 | that. |
0:41.4 | But what I see with this is they're taking this fight. |
0:43.7 | I guess you want to call it to non-politicize a treatment and get this thing out there. |
0:49.2 | They're taking it from social media censorship, a social media battleground to more of an |
0:54.1 | official them of the senators and whatever department needs to get involved to make this |
0:59.2 | thing happen. |
1:01.4 | So the censorship won't affect the conversation as much. |
1:04.3 | That's how I interpret this. |
1:06.2 | It's so unfortunate that this thing has turned into a political football because people's |
1:10.0 | lives are hanging in the balance. |
1:11.6 | But whatever senators or congressmen are out there, it's good to know that somebody, |
1:16.0 | obviously, is getting on to social media because you're not going to get the hydroxychloroquine |
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