{"id":1622945,"date":"2022-08-26T10:34:16","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622945"},"modified":"2022-08-26T10:34:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T14:34:22","slug":"trump-white-house-pressured-fda-to-reauthorize-hydroxychloroquine-congressional-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-white-house-pressured-fda-to-reauthorize-hydroxychloroquine-congressional-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump White House Pressured FDA to Reauthorize Hydroxychloroquine: Congressional Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-white-house-pressured-fda-to-reauthorize-hydroxychloroquine-congressional-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1622945&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>White House officials during the Trump administration pressured U.S. regulators to reauthorize a COVID-19 treatment and not impose certain guidance regarding emergency authorization requirements for COVID-19 vaccines, according to emails published by a House of Representatives panel on Aug. 24.<\/p>\n<p>Officials\u00a0sent a blitz of messages in 2020 to Dr. Stephen Hahn, the director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-fda\">FDA<\/a>) at the time, regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-hydroxychloroquine\">hydroxychloroquine<\/a>, including requests to reimplement emergency use authorization for the drug.<\/p>\n<p>Hydroxychloroquine, an anti-malarial, has shown some efficacy as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/hydroxychloroquine-effective-in-preventing-ccp-virus-studies_3365089.html\">a COVID-19 prophylactic<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/zinc-hydroxychloroquine-combination-effective-in-some-covid-19-patients-study_3349132.html\">treatment<\/a>, but other studies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/study-finds-no-evidence-hydroxychloroquine-works-against-covid-19_3321005.html\">have found<\/a> it has little or no effect.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump promoted the drug, citing a French study that found it was efficacious, and Dr. Deborah Birx, a top White House COVID-19 official, sent messages regarding the study to Hahn, the new report (<a href=\"https:\/\/coronavirus.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.coronavirus.house.gov\/files\/2022.08.24%20The%20Trump%20White%20House%E2%80%99s%20Relentless%20Attacks%20on%20FDA%E2%80%99s%20Coronavirus%20Response.pdf\">pdf<\/a>), from the House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis, shows.<\/p>\n<p>The same day Birx sent one of the emails\u2014March 28, 2020\u2014and told Hahn, \u201cWe should talk,\u201d the FDA granted emergency authorization for\u00a0hydroxychloroquine and a related drug, chloroquine, for treating COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>The FDA on April 24, 2020, warned about using the drugs outside of hospitals and clinical trials and about two months later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/fda-revokes-emergency-authorization-of-hydroxychloroquine-for-ccp-virus_3389032.html\">revoked the authorization<\/a> after several studies indicated the drug did not work against COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>After the decision,\u00a0Peter Navarro, a White House trade and manufacturing official, and Dr. Steven Hatfill, a virologist who was helping the White House respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, launched an effort for hydroxychloroquine reauthorization that included drafting a public petition calling on the FDA to reauthorize it.<\/p>\n<p>Navarro asked Hatfill to prepare an EUA request to the FDA, and Hatfill sent a draft of the request to Navarro on June 30, 2020, according to the select committee. 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