Officials in the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing a discredited COVID-19 treatment.
Newly released correspondence is shedding new light on the sheer volume of secret documents in Trump's possession and the extensive efforts by the government to get them back.Officials in the Trump White House tried to pressure U.S. health experts into reauthorizing a discredited COVID-19 treatment, according to a congressional investigation that provides new evidence of that administration's efforts to override Food and Drug Administration decisions early in the pandemic.
The report by the House subcommittee investigating the government's COVID-19 response focused on pressure at the FDA, which serves as gatekeeper for the drugs, vaccines and other countermeasures against the virus. "We took a different stance at the FDA," Hahn told investigators. "So that disagreement, which of course ultimately became somewhat public, was a source of pressure."
In his response, Hatfill said: "We never wrongly pressured anyone. We simply followed the science and the overwhelming evidence as detailed in several studies available at the time." According to emails obtained by the committee, Hatfill described "constant fighting with Fauci and Dr. Hahn" over access to hydroxychloroquine during the summer. Fauci is the nation's top infectious disease expert.
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