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President Trump directly announced that the FDA of the US Food and Drug Administration has urgently approved plasma treatment for Corona 19. Ahead of the Republican National Convention, he is trying to make it his own achievements, but three months later, the worst prospect of corona 19 deaths in the United States reaching 310,000 came out on the same day.

Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung reports from Washington.

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President Trump, who held an emergency press conference at the White House, directly announced the news that the US Food and Drug Administration and the FDA had urgently approved plasma treatment.

[Trump/US President: Plasma treatment is a treatment method that injects very strong antibodies obtained from the blood of people recovering from COVID-19.]

Show off with achievements saying that plasma treatment will be a breakthrough one day before the start of the Republican National Convention . Is for.

The Washington Post said many health experts say plasma treatments can help, but they don't see it as a COVID-19 drug.

The FDA's urgent approval came shortly after President Trump claimed that some FDA officials were blocking vaccine and treatment trials to prevent his reelection.

President Trump did not provide any basis for this claim.

The worst predicted that the death toll of Corona 19 in the United States will reach 310,000 in three months.

[Chris Murray/Director of the Institute of Health Quantitative Analysis, University of Washington, USA: We presented a worse scenario. Millions more will die by December.]

President Trump's pressure to approve treatments and vaccines as soon as possible has raised concerns about whether the FDA can perform objective tasks.