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🗓️ 2 September 2020
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Dr. Walid Gellad, the Director of the Center for Pharmaceutical Policy and Prescribing at the University of Pittsburgh, discusses a misleading statement from the FDA about convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19. Plus, he lays out a worrisome vaccine announcement scenario.
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0:08.7 | It's hard to read the news these days without asking yourself, how did we get here? |
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0:41.1 | From Pushkin Industries, this is Deep Background, the show where we explore the stories behind the stories in the news. |
0:48.1 | I'm Noah Feldman. The Food and Drug Administration recently issued an emergency use authorization |
0:56.0 | for doctors to take blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 |
1:02.0 | and use it as a therapy for patients who are sick enough with the disease right now |
1:07.0 | that they find themselves in the hospital. |
1:10.0 | While announcing this authorization, the FDA commissioner, Stephen Hahn, said that 35 out of |
1:17.4 | 100 of COVID-19 patients, quote, would have been saved because of the administration of plasma, |
1:22.6 | close quote. |
1:23.9 | This led to an outcry from scientists pointing out that this statement vastly overstated the treatment benefits, |
1:31.2 | criticism that Han later said was in fact justified. |
1:35.3 | So what do we actually know about convalescent plasma as a treatment for COVID-19? |
1:40.5 | And perhaps more important, what does the mess of politicization around this emergency use authorization |
1:47.7 | tell us about what might happen in the future if and when the Trump administration |
1:53.9 | seeks to use an emergency use authorization to introduce a vaccine? |
1:59.6 | Here to discuss these hugely important issues with us is Dr. Walid Jalad. |
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