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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDid I hear that Orange blotus thinks it ok to test drugs on people?..
Without going through any trials? they might die anyway?..
Was my first time listening to him yesterday blah blah his way through his rally presser, without not really answering questions that the journalists were asking...but that one got my attention
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)dhol82
(9,352 posts)Perhaps even his spawn should be in the first cohort.
CaptYossarian
(6,448 posts)janterry
(4,429 posts)My memory of the HIV epidemic, is that those who were positive, at some point, began to demand access to experimental drugs.
In the end, some level of experimentation led to the cocktail that treats HIV.
Trump is an ass, of course. And he should just be quiet. But if I were near death and some MD thought that X or Y or Z would work, I would be fine with trying. I think that some level of prescribing off-label - in this emergency, makes some sense and MD's around the world are doing this.
Hopefully, with skill, insight, and a great deal of caution.
dreamland
(964 posts)malaise
(268,930 posts)and if they die - well they're dying anyway.
Their permission or their families' permission is irrelevant - the Holey Moran Emperor has spoken.