By Colin Kellaher Eli Lilly & Co. on Friday said the European Medicines Agency s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use issued a positive scientific opinion for the company s antibody-based Covid-19 drugs aimed at helping people at high risk of severe disease avoid hospitalization. The Indianapolis drugmaker said the opinion covers its monoclonal antibody bamlanivimab alone and in combination with one named etesevimab for the treatment of confirmed Covid-19 in patients ages 12 years and older who don t need supplemental oxygen and are at high risk of progressing to severe Covid-19. Monoclonal antibodies are engineered proteins that mimic the immune system s ability to fight off viruses.
is that witness tampering, is that intimidation, is that objestruction obstruction. it sure looks like that. so you re moving ahead with the investigation. do you assume mr. robert mueller is looking into that as well? i can t say what mr. mueller will do. i think on the house or intelligence community, he lly, what s taking place from this that are under scrutiny right now. as far as filing formal charges, criminal charges, against the president, that s questionable whether that even can be done legally. the only thing really that can be done is for the house of represent it have.
civilians. where the he lly, we have a lot more sunlight on this issue, and went know it s not what we use against our own people. that feels like a conspiracy theory that s speck lavsh, rather than the fact of what the programs are. i also want to ask you, matt, about this government sort of need to recruit the kind of person edward snowden is, the kind of person we generally think of as a hacker. you now have a need by the federal government to have that kind of person in house because you re dealing with seeber security with countries like china. how dangerous is that really to bring someone in because there is a counter cultural aspect to what they do fundamentally? sure. i think hackers are probably a little bit different from the clean cut standard military recruit. we need them, though. and the nsa is the main federal agency that keeps on saying we need them. i think what s really scary here is what snowden s leak proved is
with chuck schumer and nancy pelosi and the border wall isn t in this one, did he blink in this one? the real answer is yes in that the initial white house position was, with the encouragement of conservatives. they were leading the charge in the house. remember, they said they weren t going to fund the government without the border wall. that ended when the government struck the first deal with leaders. much like the notion of letting these d.r.e.a.m.ers stay in this country he lly, the majority maybe not the majority. many fellow republicans in congress, they don t want to deal with this border wall. they think it s silly. they want border security. even though you have ultra conservatives who are furious at the notion he would do a deal on d.r.e.a.m.ers without the border wall, you have others who are like, phew.