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“My parents were immigrants and janitors,” Shkreli

says. “[Trump] inherited wealth! Fuck him. And I

thought we could be friends.” (6)

Shkreli maintained that the company would use profits to

improve the drug's formulation and develop new, better

drugs for the infection. In addition, some patients could also

obtain financial aid from the company to acquire the drug.

In addition, he claimed in an interview with Bloomberg

“that the drug would be available to all those who need it,

and that even if there was a dispute with an insurer the

patient would be sent their pills while things were being

sorted.”

Medical response to Shkreli claims for future drug research

were such that:

“attributing the price increase to the development of new

treatments is troubling,” Armstrong said, “as pyrimethamine is

well-tolerated and has not shown a decline in effectiveness that

would provoke such research.”

“This is not an infection where we have been looking for more

effective drugs,” Armstrong said. “It is a single pill — once a day

— that has minimal side effects and, while it can lead to low

blood counts, that effect is very well-mitigated simply by the

coadministration of a vitamin.” (4)

Wendy S. Armstrong, MD