I, like most here, am shocked the FDA even released this statement. They could have remained silent. What is really interesting in going through the posts and tweets is the overwhelming anger toward the FDA. This very well has created a much bigger problem for the FDA. It is so odd that the FDA cherry picked data that is not accurate to state a case that only makes the reader question why they are not explaining their responsibilities in these trials. There is no industry educated person that can’t see this is a case of bad trial design with an exceptional drug. If they made this statement in an effort to cool the moderate social media effort for them to grant an EUA, it blew up in their face. They just poured gas on the conspiracy theory’s of their political and BP corruption. I don’t believe in conspiracies as a rule because it is easy to make theory’s, hard to prove them and most theorists don’t make the effort to prove anything they say. It is very hard to have any explanation that makes sense for the FDA.

This is not a public outraged over a bad umpire call in a baseball game, this is a public outraged that a drug that save people’s lives that were on Ecmo and it can’t get the Necessary agency to make an effort. We paid for these trials, the fda needs to own their responsibility, this is a world pandemic ant they have not made one change in their antiquated process to save lives. In fact they only bend the rules for clearly politically motivated crap drugs. I hope the higher ups the fda is trying to satisfied do not stop looking at what is going on.