OT Coronavirus: America in chaos, News and Updates. One million Americans dead and counting

I'll bet you a large bag of Chee-tos (crunchy, none of that puffed stuff) that there will be more installments.

 

I'm almost sure there will be.

 

Damn, I was hoping I might be getting those Chee-tos.

 

I didn't think it was at first but the dude that posted it is a staff photographer at The Washington Post. Lends it *some* credibility.

 

That’s likely going to have to wait until next January. In the meantime, given the seriousness of the situation, when Trump makes his inevitable screwups, it would be more helpful for the press to simply point out the error and help explain what was meant to be said. Spending a bunch of time pointing out that Trump is a clown isn’t very helpful at all.

 

That's kinda hard to do when even Trump doesn't admit to or acknowledge his errors.

 

I am referring to today’s inaccurate statement by Trump about FDA approval of the use of chloroquine phosphate for treatment of COVID-19. Instead of wasting everyone’s time pointing out that it’s not approved as a treatment for that disease, they could have simply pointed to the statement from the FDA that it is undergoing testing, but they are going to be authorizing some use of it on a case by case basis under compassionate care provisions. That’s significantly more helpful than posting a bunch of articles saying Trump is WRONG! Like that’s news.

 

Can't they use it using the "off label" moniker?

 

I don’t know much of anything about that. This is what I did see:

“FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn explained during the press conference it would be allowed under what’s known “compassionate use” -- where doctors can request to use the experimental drug and get permission from the FDA to give to patients. Hahn also said he didn't want to give "false hope" but said he was hopeful about the treatments.”

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Off-label_use

 

It actually wouldn't surprise me. The Trump administration has control over nothing. Now they have concerns over the internet crashing which would be a real shit show!

 

Europe is lowering the stream quality of Netflix.