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+ If Azar could get the drug, what would the White House need to do to make that happen? + Azar thought for a moment. It was Oct. 1, 2020, and the drug was still in clinical trials. The Food and Drug Administration would have to make a "compassionate use" exception for its use since it was not yet available to the public. Only about 10 people so far had used it outside of those trials. Azar said of course he would help. + Azar wasn't told who the drug was for but would later connect the dots. The patient was one of Pres-ident Donald Tr*mp's closest advisers: Hope Hicks. + A short time later, FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn received a request from a top White House official for a separate case, this time with even greater urgency: Could he get the FDA to sign off on a compassionate-use authorization for a monoclonal antibody right away?  There is a standard

process that doctors use to apply to the FDA for unapproved drugs on behalf of patients dealing with life-threatening illnesses who have exhausted all other options, and agency scientists review it. The difference was that most people don't call the commissioner directly. + The White House wanted Hahn to say yes within hours. Hahn, who still did not know who the application was for, consulted career officials. The FDA needs to go by the book, the officials insisted. + Hahn relayed the message back to the White House. They kept pressing him to effectively cut corners. No, we can't do that, Hahn told them several times. We're talking about someone's life. We have to actually examine the application to make sure we're doing it safely. + When Hahn later learned the effort was on behalf of the pres-ident, he was stunned. For God's sake, he thought, it's the pres-ident who's sick, and you want us to bend the rules? + Tr*mp was in the highest-risk category for severe disease from Covid-19 - at 74, he rarely exercised and was considered medically obese. He was the type of patient with whom you would want to take every possible precaution. As it did with all compassionate-use applications, the FDA made a decision within 24 hours. Agency officials scrambled to figure out which company's monoclonal antibody would be most appropriate given the clinical information they had, and selected the one from Regeneron, known simply as Regen-Cov. + A five-day stretch in October 2020 - from the moment White House officials began an extraordinary effort to get Tr*mp lifesaving drugs to the day the president returned to the White House from the hospital - marked a dramatic turning point in the nation's flailing coronavirus response. + Tr*mp's brush with severe illness and the prospect of death caught the White House so unprepared that they had not even briefed Vice President Mike Pence's team on a plan to swear him in if Tr*mp became incapacitated. + For months, the pres-ident had taunted and dodged the virus, flouting safety protocols by holding big rallies and packing the White House with maskless guests. But just one month before the election, the virus that had already killed more than 200,000 Americans had sickened the most powerful person on the planet. + Tr*mp's medical advisers hoped his bout with the coronavirus, which was far more serious than acknowledged at the time, would inspire him to take the virus seriously.  Perhaps now, they thought, he would encourage Americans to wear masks and put his health and medical officials front and center in the response. + Instead, Tr*mp emerged from the experience triumphant and ever more defiant. He urged people not to be afraid of the virus or let it dominate their lives, disregarding that he had had access to health care and treatments unavailable to other Americans. + It was, several advisers said, the last chance to turn the response around. And once the opportunity passed, it was the point of no return. (Remainder omitted.)

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+ According to Twitter, the policy Atlas violated prohibits sharing false or misleading content related to Covid-19 that could lead to harm. CNN has reached out to the White House for comment from Atlas. + The message pushed by the controversial neuroradiologist goes against guidance from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which recommends people wear masks in public settings and when around people who don't live in their household, especially when other social distancing measures are difficult to maintain.

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+ Congressional investigators released emails and documents Friday (4-09-2021) that show Department of Health and Human Services appointees under former President Donald Tr*mp regularly bragged about their efforts to alter staff scientists' reports on the coronavirus. + Officials tried to rewrite the weekly scientific reports so Tr*mp could use the data to support his political positions on wearing masks and reopening the economy, according to the emails released Friday by the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus. + "Our investigation has shown that Tr*mp Administration officials engaged in a persistent pattern of political interference in the nation's public health response to the coronavirus pandemic, overruling and bullying scientists and making harmful decisions that allowed the virus to spread more rapidly," said subcommittee Chairman Rep. James Clyburn, D-S.C. + Clyburn accused former White House Covid-19 advisor Dr. Scott Atlas of

advocating for "policies that would allow the virus to spread widely among many Americans."Documents obtained by the panel show that Atlas was "aware of, and may have participated in, efforts to attack reports issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in order to justify Pres-ident Tr*mp's push to reopen," Clyburn said. + Atlas and other political appointees within HHS succeeded on several occasions in changing language and influencing the tone of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports, which offer weekly public updates on scientists' findings, the panel found. + MMWRs are data-based scientific studies that aren't usually susceptible to political pressure. + The investigation was first launched after reports surfaced that Tr*mp demanded the right to change the CDC's reports. The emails show Tr*mp administration officials bragging about altering the reports. + "Small victory but a victory nonetheless and yippee!!!" former science advisor Paul Alexander wrote in a Sept. 9 email to let then-HHS public affairs chief Michael Caputo know he was successful in changing the opening line of a CDC report about Covid-19 transmission in school children. + Just two days later, Alexander requested Atlas' help in altering another CDC report on Covid-19 deaths among young people that Alexander said was "timed for the election" in order to keep schools closed.

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