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Antibody cocktail and abortive cells: how Trump was treated for COVID-19

The experimental drug REGN-COV2, which Donald Trump took during treatment for coronavirus, was obtained using cells extracted from tissue of embryos after an abortion. Research in this area, the White House and the US President himself are trying to ban, writes Air force.

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Trump himself explained his rapid cure from coronavirus infection by the fact that he asked doctors at the Walter Reed military hospital, among other drugs, to give him an experimental cocktail of antibodies developed by the pharmaceutical company Regeneron Pharmaceuticals. The drug is still undergoing trials and has not been officially approved for use by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

However, according to the US President, the result of this drug was “a real miracle.” In a specially recorded video message posted on Twitter? Trump called the antibody cocktail "the key" to his recovery.

“I think it was a divine blessing that I became infected (with the virus. - BBC). “I consider this a blessing in disguise,” said the head of the White House. “I got infected and heard about this drug, so I said, ‘Let me try it.’ ... And it worked incredibly well.”

What cocktail was given to Trump

As confirmed by the personal physician of the head of the White House, Sean Conley, the US president received the first portion of the experimental cocktail of monoclonal antibodies REGN-COV2 on Friday, October 2, when he felt unwell and was urgently taken to the Walter Reed military hospital in the suburbs of Washington.

The pharmaceutical company Regeneron clarified that the molecules required for the cocktail are produced in hamster ovary cells, the so-called CHO cells. I must say that in the production of the drug, cells obtained from human embryonic tissues are also used.

The laboratory tests that check the efficacy of the antibodies in the cocktail use a standardized group of cells called HEK 293T. These cells were extracted from the kidney tissue of embryos obtained as a result of abortions in the Netherlands back in the 1970s.

Over the past decades, these cells have gained “immortality”: they continue dividing in the laboratory. To create various drugs, specialists make genetic changes and additions to 293T cells.

Now, according to representatives of Regeneron, many laboratories in the United States and other countries around the world are using 293T cells to produce viral pseudoparticles, which are virus-like structures containing the coronavirus protein. In this way, it is checked how effectively various antibodies are able to neutralize the virus.

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The two antibodies that Regeneron used in the cocktail prescribed to Trump have been tested using cells from embryos.

However, according to representatives of the pharmaceutical company, the finished product does not contain embryonic cells. Moreover, the cells used have been in the laboratory for several decades and have undergone numerous changes.

“You can put it any way you want, but the sets of 293T cells that we have today cannot be considered parts of fetal tissue, and we also do not use fetal tissue in other drugs,” explained Regeneron spokeswoman Alexandra Bowie.

Anti-stem cell administration

According to experts, another drug Remdesevir, which was also received by the US President, was tested using the very same HEK 293T cells.

In his video message on Wednesday, October 7, Trump repeated several times that, at his request, the experimental cocktail from Regeneron will be officially approved in the near future, and access to this drug will be free for all Americans.

“As for me, when I arrived (at the hospital. - Bi-bi-si), I wasn't feeling well. But after some 24 hours I already felt great,” Trump said. “And this is what I want to make available to everyone.”

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The Trump administration has consistently advocated a ban on abortion and an end to all research using tissue and cells obtained this way. Last year, the White House officially banned the use of embryonic tissue in their research by the National Institutes of Health. He announced that any applications to continue such experiments would be rejected.

In January of this year, Trump became the first-ever U.S. president to take part in the largest annual anti-abortion demonstration in Washington. Two years earlier, in 2018, he became the first head of the White House to speak at the gala evening of the conservative political organization SBA List, which advocates the prohibition of abortion.

However, the administration now does not believe that the use of an experimental cocktail to treat the president somehow violated the ban on research using embryonic tissue.

“The administration's policy regarding the use of human fetal tissue obtained from abortions for research purposes does not prohibit the use of tissue that (pharmaceutical companies) already possessed. Bi-bi-si) before the ban was introduced on June 5, 2019,” a US administration official told CBS.

It became known that the company Regeneron has approached the Food and Drug Administration and asked for urgent approval of the drug REGN-COV2, which has not yet passed the third phase of trials.

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