No, Mr. Pres­i­dent, you can’t just or­der up out­break meds with the snap of your fin­gers

Don­ald Trump was in clas­sic freestyle speak­ing mode on Thurs­day as he talked up the im­me­di­ate pro­duc­tion of drugs that can fight the new coro­n­avirus.

Chloro­quine got the big head­lines, with Trump not­ing that it can be pre­scribed with­out any­one wor­ry­ing about whether or not it would kill peo­ple. Then there was remde­sivir, Gilead’s ex­per­i­men­tal an­ti-vi­ral that the pres­i­dent said was “es­sen­tial­ly ap­proved.” And Trump vowed to slash through any “red tape” sep­a­rat­ing Amer­i­cans from coro­n­avirus drugs.

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