What is in Regeneron, one of 3 drugs Trump has been taking
Something has helped Trump to recover quickly (if he had the condition) but what is the cost?
This report came out just a few short hours ago.
Donald Trump has posted a bombastic video outside the White House, where he spruiked a new virus “cure” and said his infection was a “blessing from god”.
He has returned to the Oval Office less than one week after he announced he tested positive for COVID-19, saying he feels “like, perfect”.
With speculation rife over the state of his health and when he would make his next public appearance, the President began the video in typical Trump fashion.
“Perhaps you recognise me, it’s your favourite President,” he said before praising America’s doctors and nurses. “We have great people, just a great country.”
He said that when he was taken to hospital last week he “wasn’t feeling so hot”, but that quickly changed thanks a new type of treatment.
He said an experimental antibody cocktail produced by biotech company Regeneron, that has rarely been used outside clinical trials, was a “cure” for coronavirus.
This is the discussion amongst the Tru News team about Regeneron, which is one of three drugs Trump has been taking.
Some are arguing that Trump has beaten Fauci and the Deep State with alternatives to the officially-mandated drugs and vaccinesthey have been developing, but I think situation is much more complicated than that.
In todays broadcast Tru News referenced this reponse to theircomments on Regeneron. This is from the Charlotte Lozier Institute which is a conservative anti-abortion think tank.
The irony is they may be anti-abortion but do not seem to be against harvested human embryo cells being used in medications - or at least are denying it.
The CharlotteLozierInstitute is an anti-abortion think tank founded in 2011. It is an organisation dedicated to lecting candidates and pusuing policies that wil reduce and ultimately end abortion”
A statement from David Prentice, Ph.D., and Tara Sander Lee, Ph.D., of the
Charlotte Lozier Institute:
“Uninformed commentary has emerged this morning stating that President Trump has received a medication created with the use of human embryonic stem cells. CLI has reviewed the published information and our conclusion is straightforward: The president was not given any medicines to treat COVID-19 that involved the destruction of human life. NO human embryonic stem cells or human fetal tissue were used to produce the treatments President Trump received–period. Let’s look at the facts.
“The Regeneron therapy given to the president was made in Velocimmune humanized mice, a novel platform that uses genetically modified mouse
embryonic stem (ES) cells to generate antibodies described hereand here. Development of Regeneron’s antibody cocktail is detailed in the journal Science, describing how they identified their antibodies made from Velocimmune mice and blood from recovered patients previously infected with SARS-CoV-2. The final antibody pair used in the REGN-COV2 therapy cocktail was then produced in Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells. Results from Regeneron’s REGN-COV2 clinical trials to treat COVID-19 patients are reported here.
“Mouse embryonic stem cells and genetic modifications to make such mice date back to 1981, have been extensively studied, and were instrumental in the discovery of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, another fully ethical alternative to fetal material, as discussed in this Nature review. iPSCs are much easier to use than human embryonic stem cells, more flexible in their uses, and are not ethically controversial. No one has ever advocated against using mouse embryonic stem cells for development of therapies – only against destruction of human lives.
“And finally, the anti-viral medicine remdesivir and the anti-inflammatory corticosteroid dexamethasone, also given to the president to treat COVID-19, are chemicals—no cells of any kind were used to produce these medicines.
“These facts reinforce this truth: Ethical treatments are saving lives every day–including the president of the United States.”
The Charlotte Lozier Institute urges Twitter, Facebook, and other social networks not to take down these erroneous comments but to supply a link to our full statement at lozierinstitute.org.
For what it is worth, here is description of the effects of the third drug, the steroid, dexamethasone t
that Trump has been taking.
I was diagnosed with a brain tumor in 2013, immediately following a summer tour with my band. It was a nightmare. I’m a full-time songwriter, and my specific type of tumor — an “acoustic neuroma,” which sits on one’s hearing nerve, causing terrible damage to the surrounding real estate — had already wiped out much of my hearing. Hoping to restore some of that hearing before I underwent brain surgery, my doctors prescribed me a daily dose of dexamethasone — the same steroid that is now being administered to President Trump as part of his kitchen-sink treatment of Covid-19. And just like Trump, it made me feel invincible.
Medically speaking, it was a miracle drug. Dex restored nearly half of the hearing I’d already lost. But it also made me high as a kite, like I’d just mainlined a potent mixture of espresso beans and psychotropics. I could feel my heartbeat in my eyeballs. I was euphoric. I made elaborate plans for the months following my surgery — including another tour with my band, Andrew Leahey & the Homestead — despite my doctor’s warning that I wouldn’t be well enough to hit the road until the following summer. Not even the anxiety of my upcoming operation could dampen my buzz. To borrow a phrase I heard somewhere recently, I felt better than I did 20 years ago.
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