Will Trump pressure the FDA to approve an unsafe Covid-19 vaccine to help get him re-elected?
at the National Institute of Health, including Dr. Anthony Fauci, who argued that the data on plasma’s effectiveness was insufficient. The pressure from the Trump administration apparently carried a little more weight. “We broke the logjam over the last week,” Trump said during a press briefing on Sunday. “I think there are people in the FDA and actually in your larger department that can see things being held up.
“Although we see regulation as burdensome, you want the FDA to regulate these products,” Dr. Paul Offit, director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and member of the FDA’s vaccine advisory committee,in May. “You want someone to take a long hard look at what the data are before they license it for use in this country.”
Others took comfort in the integrity of the scientists staffed at the Food and Drug Administration. “[The FDA] tends to insulate themselves pretty well from all the hype, and they tend to look at things without bias,” Dr. Peter Hotez, dean of Baylor’s College of Tropical Medicine, told. “They’re really good scientists trying to think through this so I don’t think they’re going to be swayed. But who knows what’s going to happen.
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