Trump administration's $21 million gambit for Pepcid as coronavirus remedy fizzles

[teach1st]

Source: Tampa Bay Times

...

There were no published data or studies to suggest that famotidine, the active ingredient in Pepcid, would be effective against the novel coronavirus.

And in early April, when government scientists learned of a proposal to spend millions in federal research funding to study Pepcid, they found it laughable, according to interviews, a whistleblower complaint and internal government records obtained by The Associated Press.

But that didn’t stop the Trump administration from granting a $21 million emergency contract to researchers trying it out on ailing patients. The Food and Drug Administration gave the clinical trial speedy approval even as a top agency official worried that the proposed daily injections of high doses of famotidine for already sick patients pushed safety “to the limits,” internal government emails show.

That contract is now under scrutiny after a government whistleblower accused a senior administration official of rushing the deal through without the scientific oversight necessary for such a large federal award. And the doctors who initially promoted the Pepcid idea are locked in a battle for credit and sniping over allegations of scientific misconduct.

Read more: https://www.tampabay.com/news/health/2020/07/23/trump-administrations-21-million-gambit-for-pepcid-as-coronavirus-remedy-fizzles/

[DonaldsRump]

1. FOLLOW THE MONEY....that is all. n/t

[PatSeg]

13. Yep

Someone(s) is benefiting from this research and I doubt it is any patients. Trump is so cheap with money about some things, but he just throws it away on others. Just think of all the good $21 million could do elsewhere.

[rurallib]

21. cheap with his money, spendthrift with ours

[Faux pas]

2. They

won't stop until we're all dead and the treasury is completely empty. Murder and theft right in front of our stunned faces.

[barbtries]

3. the next thing they'll be pushing is cyanide or strychnine.

they want to kill us. i swear they do.

[erronis]

12. Bleach is way cheaper. That's what the dump originally proposed.

Wonder if dump got the COVID-19 virus if he'd let us all have a go at injecting him with bleach?

[barbtries]

14. 3 options with trump:

he's immune.
he's an asymptomatic super spreader.
he has or has had it and lied about it.

[erronis]

15. I've read that the russian upper-crust has had an anti-virus treatment. Guess dump has also

been given treatments.

(If I were dump, I'd suspect chemicals that putin was supplying. But dump doesn't know science....)

[barbtries]

22. i haven't heard that.

do you know where you saw it?

[erronis]

26. I can't find it now, naturally. If it resurfaces I'll repost. Thanks for the sanity check!

[mercuryblues]

30. When he does

he'll be bragging about how no one is dying from Covid-19 anymore thanks to his great brain.

[Initech]

4. Still looking for a miracle cure, are we?

[lagomorph777]

16. Still looking for a quick buck and trying to sabotage any real progress.

[underpants]

5. *Burp*

Wow.

[durablend]

6. No money to extend UE tho....

[LizBeth]

7. He keeps spending our money on quick fix schemes. This is why he was always going bankrupt.

He is a shit business man.

[jcgoldie]

8. Its no wonder the fool proposed drinking bleach...

It's like they are just throwing dice against the wall with all these chemicals.

I went to the tractor supply to buy some ivermectin dewormer for my dairy goats. Same shit I've been using for 20 years. They took it all off the fucking shelves because the MAGATS were buying it up to drink for Covid-19. Fucking animal dewormer for parasites in their gut... in what possible science deprived world do a bunch of dumbasses think that would kill a virus in people? One where the president thinks shit happens by magic.

[chriscan64]

9. $21 million spent on Pepsi would have been a better buy.

"You can wash down the taste of Goya beans with it!"

[erronis]

18. Huh? I thought he had angled for product placement with Cocaine-Cola. Budger Chow, McTurdle Nuggets.

Adding Pepsi and Goya to the burpee is perfect.

(And please make out your checks to the Ronald J. "charity&quot .

[Grasswire2]

10. spending our money like a drunken sailor

Where are the 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine that he snapped up?

Does Jared have all this medicine under his personal control?

What the hell!!??

[BComplex]

17. You asked:Where are the 29 million doses of hydroxychloroquine that he snapped up?

They used them on vets in the VA hospitals. It killed most of them.

[erronis]

19. This is how to show respect to the "greatest generations" - per the dump.

I hope his dump-ass magats understand that they won't even get the chance to ingest some quick-killing chemical. When their time comes, just stuff them in mass graves, alive.

[Grasswire2]

23. yes, but not 29 million.

Where are the other stockpiled doses?

Kushner knows.

[BComplex]

27. true that.

[riversedge]

32. Gov DeSantis of Florida got a big shipment also. ........

I read that t LONG time ago.

[louzke9]

33. Can RISK Tax Dollars On....

doubtful cures. Won't spend a nickel more for those suffering economically and now millions are about to go HOMELESS as EVICTION BAN is about to expire. GOP thinks the polls are bad now?

[stillcool]

11. the cons getting caught getting conned?

[Canoe52]

20. Paging Dr. Mengele, Paging Dr. Mengele, The White House is calling...

These people are fucking sick.

[jmowreader]

24. If my boss had spent $21 million on something we knew wasn't going to work...

...I'd have a new boss by this time tomorrow. No wonder Trump drove three casinos into the ground.

[rickford66]

25. How come these leeches didn't try the obvious ?

[Cha]

28. trump admin throws money away. like lives.

[Nexus2]

29. This is stunning

I hadn't heard anything about this before, not a peep on that news or chatter online except here. Was its just washed away in the non-stop flood of crap streaming out of the WH all the time?

[gopiscrap]

34. welcome to DU

[Nexus2]

36. Thank you!

Glad to be here!

[Scruffy1]

37. I think you are right.

The non stop flood of crap is so relentless that it works very well on a nation with a short attention span.

[riversedge]

31. With VP pence and Jarad--and Trump determining who gets the contracts--there is bound to be

corruption. they have kicked Congress aside. damn them all.


...............That contract is now under scrutiny after a government whistleblower accused a senior administration official of rushing the deal through without the scientific oversight necessary for such a large federal award.

[milestogo]

35. Goya Beans.

They cure everything.