'They are devoted to science to the public health and the decisions they make...I have confidence in them...They are very good people,' Fauci said.
Fauci's comments come two days after Trump tagged FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, whom Trump appointed in 2017, in a tweet, complaining of"another political hit job" because of the agency's plans to raise the standards for a coronavirus vaccine emergency authorization, Axios reported.
"New FDA Rules make it more difficult for them to speed up vaccines for approval before Election Day," Trump tweeted Tuesday."Just another political hit job! @SteveFDA"Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies during a U.S. Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing to examine COVID-19, focusing on an update on the federal response in Washington, D.C., on September 23.
After the FDA submitted their guidelines to the White House in late September, Meadows raised several concerns, including questioning the need for the two-month follow-up period, according to theTrump told reporters on September 23, the same week the White House received the guidelines, that his administration"may or may not" approve them, suggesting the FDA's decision"was a political move more than anything else.
But on Tuesday, one day after Trump returned from Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he received treatment for his own coronavirus diagnosis, the White House reversed course, accepting the FDA's rules, which were finally published that same day,The president, desperate for a second term in office, is relying on his administration's ability to push out a safe and effective vaccine before Americans finish casting their ballots on November 3.
Trump assured Americans Monday that they should not fear COVID-19 and that a vaccine is coming"momentarily," he said in a video filmed moments after he returned from the hospital.
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