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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 04:11 PM Jan 2022

Jen Psaki Calls Ron DeSantis Crazy For Fighting To Use COVID Treatments That Don't Work

BY JASON EASLEY

Jen Psaki Calls Ron DeSantis Crazy For Fighting To Use COVID Treatments That Don't Work

https://www.politicususa.com/2022/01/25/jen-psaki-calls-ron-desantis-crazy-for-fighting-to-use-covid-treatments-that-dont-work.html

"SNIP.....

Jen Psaki Calls Ron DeSantis Sticking With COVID Therapies That Don’t Work Crazy

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Psaki said in response to DeSantis fighting to use treatments for omicron that don’t work:

 Let’s just take a step back to realize how crazy this is a little bit. We have approached covid treatments, like filling a medicine cabinet, we are not relying on one type, brand, treatment, we invest in and continue to buy a variety across monoclonal antibodies, preexposure prevention therapies, and oral antivirals.

We have provided 71,000 doses of antivirals to Florida, including 34,000 additional treatments that do work against omicron just last week. A range of those treatments, I should say, to be clear. What the FDA is making clear is that these treatments, the ones they are fighting over, that the governor’s fighting over, do not work against omicron and they do have side effects. That is what the scientists are saying. 

We have sent them 71,000 doses of treatments that are effective against omicron and are effective also against delta. They are still advocating for treatments that don’t work. We have seen, unfortunately, from the beginning in our pandemic response a range of steps or pushes that have been made through social media platforms, unfortunately from the mouths of elected officials, and the advocacy for things that don’t work when we know things to work. Promoting pseudoscience, sowing doubt on vaccines and boosters, and now promoting treatments that don’t work.


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Jen Psaki Calls Ron DeSantis Crazy For Fighting To Use COVID Treatments That Don't Work (Original Post) applegrove Jan 2022 OP
Video Nevilledog Jan 2022 #1
Too many words for the dummies to follow. lagomorph777 Jan 2022 #2
This is why Jen Psaki is so GOOD at her job. ProudMNDemocrat Jan 2022 #3
Ron DeSantis wants to administer drugs that don't work instead of vaccines that do. LetMyPeopleVote Jan 2022 #4
She has so much to choose from luv2fly Jan 2022 #5
She did not call DeSantis crazy. Caliman73 Jan 2022 #6

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
2. Too many words for the dummies to follow.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 04:16 PM
Jan 2022

I wish she had said something like: "Governor DeSatan is pushing COVID treatments that he knows are proven to not work. He is crazy and evil. He is killing Floridians."

ProudMNDemocrat

(16,783 posts)
3. This is why Jen Psaki is so GOOD at her job.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 04:30 PM
Jan 2022

She is speaking to the Nation as well as answering a reporter's question.

Facts do matter.

LetMyPeopleVote

(145,129 posts)
4. Ron DeSantis wants to administer drugs that don't work instead of vaccines that do.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 04:41 PM
Jan 2022

DeSantis' large donor is unhappy.


Caliman73

(11,730 posts)
6. She did not call DeSantis crazy.
Tue Jan 25, 2022, 06:00 PM
Jan 2022

She said, "Let's just take a step back to realize how crazy THIS is a little bit. "THIS" did not refer to DeSantis' character or personality. It refers to the ACTION of fighting to use treatments that are not effective. Perhaps you can infer that DeSantis is crazy as his actions are "crazy" but that was not what Psaki said.

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