Trump announces pursuit of anti-viral therapies to fight COVID-19 | ABC News

Today I want to share with you the exciting progress the FDA is making with the private sector as we reduce bureaucracy like no one has before, someone came up yesterday or on one of the networks and said there has never been a president even close to that. I've been able to do what I've done by reducing all the bureaucracy and everything necessary to bring very important things to the medical market, so we reduce the bureaucracy to develop vaccines and

therapies

as quickly as possible, long before anyone else. I was even thinking about doing this and as you know, earlier this week we started the first clinical trial of a vaccine candidate for the virus and that was launched in record time, it was just a few weeks and that would have taken years to do wouldn't it? long ago.

As we race to develop a vaccine, we're also looking at anti

viral

therapies

and that's really what we're going to talk to you about today, that's the purpose of being here today and to me, that's even more important, by its nature, the vaccine that you need to have. . long tests because you have to make sure that what goes into someone's body is not going to cause destruction, do bad things, so you need long tests and they are doing very well with the vaccines, but there is still a long process, but therapies are something we can advance. Potentially much faster and treatments we will be able to reduce the severity or duration of symptoms to get people better essentially by looking at things to get people better or in the early stages they wouldn't even know they have it. and that's where I think it will work even better