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And yet, just hours after that April 4 press conference, White House officials pushed ahead with a massive behind-the-scenes pressure campaign on the governments top health officials to deliver huge amounts of chloroquine drugs to just about anyone who wanted them, according to documents reviewed by Vanity Fair. That night, Brett Giroir, the assistant secretary for health in the Department of Health and Human Services, sent an email with the subject line Hydroxychloroquine to a group including FEMA administrator Pete Gaynor, HHS assistant secretary for preparedness and response Robert Kadlec, and Navy Rear Admiral John Polowczyk, who leads a supply-chain task force at FEMA.
The email read:
WH call. Really want to flood Ny and NJ with treatment courses. Hospitals have it. Sick out patients dont. And cant get. So go through distribution channels as we discussed. If we have 29 million perhaps send a few million ASAP? WH wants follow up in AM.
We can get a lot more of this. Right Bob? Millions per week?
The emails indicate that the administrations top health officials were closely involved in a frenzied effort to make unproven chloroquine treatments widely available, even though the FDAs new emergency rule limited distribution of the drug as a COVID-19 treatment to hospitalized patients. One hour after the first email, Gaynor replied to Kadlec, Giroir, and Polowczyk, seeming to suggest that FDA commissioner Stephen Hahn was on board with expanding COVID-19 patients access to the drug: Hahn asked to distribute to hospitals and the drug stores.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,018 posts)flying rabbit
(4,636 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)Ohiogal
(32,047 posts)Embarrassing moron! Why cant we have good, smart, people running our country instead of this dumpster full of ignorance!
dalton99a
(81,569 posts)tanyev
(42,601 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,403 posts)stillcool
(32,626 posts)Trump is full of octane, but his friends have the matches. I'm starting to rethink the whole value of wealth thing. I like having my mind and my soul.
uponit7771
(90,359 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)Nail down the evidence on this.
Then charge someone with crime.
Unprecedented.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)chowder66
(9,075 posts)JDC
(10,130 posts)Never full thoughts or complete sentences. Weird short sentences, etc etc. They read like an 1800s telegram for f sake.
I've been reading and writing emails for my entire professional career and never have I read messages like the ones I consistently see coming from these clowns.
It's just bizarre. Rant over.
NCjack
(10,279 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)related to his "uncle."
Hekate
(90,779 posts)Disaffected
(4,568 posts)(Bat Shit Crazy).
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)doing everything he can to prevent mass testing for the virus, and now suggesting that people inject themselves with disinfectant and other chemicals? He really is trying to mass exterminate people.
Oh yes, and ignoring the warnings for two months while the virus spread throughout the nation, well that just goes without saying. Someone PLEASE stop this madman!