Trump: I have asked US pharma CEOs to offer Johnson experimental Covid-19 treatments
by Julian Borger in Washington from Science | The Guardian on (#51T5A)
US president doesn't name companies or treatments, but says they have arrived in London already
Donald Trump has said he asked US pharmaceutical companies working on experimental coronavirus drugs to approach Boris Johnson's doctors and offer their help, after it emerged that the British prime minister was in intensive care.
In an evening press briefing, Trump did not name the companies or the drugs, but earlier in the day he held a conference about therapeutic drugs with the heads of four US pharmaceutical and biotech companies: Amgen, Genetech, Gilead, and Regeneron.
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