Donald Trump has claimed that the US are working on discovering a medicine that can bring people back to life.
Trump stated that the drug has been tested and is showing positive results.
He said, “Without waiting many, many years, we know the drug works because we’ve taken people who were dead. We had a person given the last rights, gone.
“The kids are crying and everything, and given them this drug and the person became better.
“It works. You know, and some don’t work, but you learn really fast. It’s called the ultimate test.”
However, the US president spared ant details, giving no clinical data or the specific name of the substance.
He linked the successes to the Right to Try Act, a policy that allows terminally ill patients to access experimental treatments.
The legislation was passed during his first administration.
Medical professionals and critics have unsurprisingly responded to the claims with significant skepticim.
It has been argued that this story has been exaggerated from severely ill patients, rather than clinically dead patients with professionals stating the drug simply does not exist.
There was also backlash from the medical world after the conference due to the promotion of ‘fake drugs’.
The announcement comes as the US administration is making a shift in public health funding, moving to cut programs for FDA-approved life-saving treatments like Narcan.
Medical experts also highlighted that federal support for proven death-preventing tools (such as fentanyl test strips) is being prohibited.
Outside of the medical world, Trump’s claims received further criticism with his statements being compared to a movie plot.
Many shocked listeners understandably thought the unnamed drug in question must be fake.