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A Trump-touted covid therapy awaits proof to back up his boasts Anna Edney, Bloomberg FacebookTwitterEmail Stephen Hahn, commissioner of food and drugs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), center, speaks during a news conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington on Aug. 23, 2020.Bloomberg photo by Stefani Reynolds. One day before the Republican National Convention kicked off, President Donald Donald Trump and top drug regulator Stephen Hahn held a White House press conference to tout emergency authorization of a promising covid-19 treatment. Convalescent plasma, a soup of immune factors derived from the blood of recovered covid-19 patients, had shown an incredible rate of success and would save countless lives, Trump said Aug 23. Yet more than four months later and with more than 330,000 U.S. coronavirus deaths reported since the pandemic began, the jury is still out how much the treatment benefits patients, if at all.

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