Trump administration backs giving experimental coronavirus therapies to patients

Published March 19, 2020 3:51pm ET



President Trump announced Thursday that the Food and Drug Administration would soon introduce new coronavirus therapies.

Trump announced that the FDA is “slashing all of the red tape” to get medicines on the market “as fast as we can get it.” Anti-viral therapies are still in early clinical trials, but the Trump administration is aiming to speed up the process.

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