1. It’s not about “top secret research”. This is about misrepresentation of research undertaken by the Mayo Clinic.
2. It’s not just that a spokesman can’t point to the statistic - it’s that scientists can’t work out retrospectively where the statistic came from, and their best guess where it did come from suggests that the president and the FDA commissioner were wrong, and exaggerated the benefits of the treatment.
3. It’s great if the US Govt is supporting COVID research. But it’s terrible if they then politicise the research, and lie/exaggerate the benefits that the research might have shown for political reasons.
4. Put simply, when the FDA gets things wrong, it’s likely that patients are harmed or killed. In this case it’s probably not so bad, but political interference in the process of approving drugs and treatments for patients is a frightening situation, and not one that any reputable politician should be anywhere near.
