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White House: 'Breakthrough' Coming for Coronavirus Treatment

Ken Bredemeier

   WASHINGTON - The White House says President Donald Trump will announce
   a "major therapeutic breakthrough" Sunday night for the treatment of
   coronavirus, the pandemic that has killed more than 176,000 people in
   the U.S. and infected nearly 5.7 million, more than in any other
   country across the world.

   Trump's announcement is coming a day after he accused, without
   evidence, "the deep state, or whoever" at the U.S. Food and Drug
   Administration of "making it very difficult for drug companies to get
   people in order to test the vaccines and therapeutics."
   The U.S. leader claimed, without evidence,in a Twitter remark that
   officials at the drug regulatory agency "obviously '¦ are hoping to
   delay the answer until after November 3rd," the date of his re-election
   contest against Democrat Joe Biden. "Must focus on speed, and saving
   lives!"

   White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said late Saturday that
   Health and Human Resources Secretary Alex Azar and FDA chief Stephen
   Hahn would attend the announcement with Trump, a day ahead of the start
   of the Republican National Convention, where Trump will be renominated
   for a second four-year term.

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