US President Donald Trump has been infected with the corona virus, now the 74-year-old is being treated with a daring drug cocktail.
Experts criticize the treatment in the strongest possible terms.
Donald Trump and First Lady Melania have contracted the corona virus.
The US president was admitted to a clinic on Friday.
The way it is treated is sharply criticized by some experts.
Washington - Donald Trump's corona infection caused a stir late on
Thursday evening
(local time), in the middle of the US election campaign * the
US President
was surprisingly admitted to a hospital.
Although the 74-year-old has only had mild
symptoms *
according to official information
, Trump is now being treated with an experimental drug.
A decision that
experts
criticize.
Meanwhile, the election campaign for challenger Joe Biden continues.
Biden was also previously tested for the corona virus *, now the result is there.
But an event in the White House apparently turned into a superspreader event, and the number of infections continues to rise.
Donald Trump falls ill with corona: US President is treated in clinic
The drug is a non-approved
drug *
that
is still in the trial phase.
"We shouldn't give the president this drug until it's proven effective," wrote
emergency physician
Jeremy Faust of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston on
on Friday
.
Medical professor
Vinay Prasad from the
University of California in San Francisco also
criticized the decision severely: "It is bad science, bad medicine * and bad ethics to give powerful people untried things that are not given to normal people".
US President Donald Trump infected with corona - experts criticize drug cocktail
Trump's personal physician Sean Conley
had previously announced that the US president had been treated with an experimental antibody cocktail before he was transferred to the hospital.
As a "precautionary measure", the 74-year-old received a dose of synthetic antibodies from the US pharmaceutical company Regeneron.
The treatment with the
antibody cocktail
is currently being
investigated
in clinical
studies
; the agent is not approved.
Regeneron boss Leonard Schleifer
told the "New York Times" that his company was
"happy to comply" with
the
White House's
request
for the agent.
Trump is not the first patient to receive the drug on the basis of an exception.
Just a few days ago, the
US company announced
that initial tests had achieved initial success.
Accordingly, it has been shown that the intravenously administered antibody cocktail can
reduce
the
viral load
in
corona patients
who
are
not
treated
in the
hospital
and can shorten the recovery time.
Donald Trump: US President gets corona antibody cocktail - and another drug
But the
antibody cocktail
,
which has not yet been approved,
is not the only drug that the US president was given.
As
Donald Trump's
personal
physician
confirmed on Friday, the 74-year-old will be treated in parallel with the drug Remdesivir.
The US president is doing “very well” and does not need any
oxygen supply
.
He took a first dose of Remdesivir and has been resting since then.
Doctors see
Remdesivir,
which was originally developed to treat
Ebola
, not as a panacea for
Covid-19 disease, but often as helpful.
According to the manufacturer, the drug can
significantly reduce
the
risk of death
in the event of a severe course of the
corona disease Covid-19 *
.
The drug is usually not used for mild progressions.
Officially, US President Donald Trump has only had mild symptoms so far.