WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has blocked new Food and Drug Administration guidelines on bringing potential vaccines for COVID-19 to market that would almost certainly have prevented their introduction before the Nov. 3 election.
At issue was the FDA’s planned instruction that vaccine developers follow patients enrolled in their trials for at least two months to rule out safety issues before seeking emergency approval from the agency. A senior administration confirmed the move Monday evening, saying the White House believed there was “no clinical or medical reason” for the additional requirement.
The intervention by Trump officials is the latest example of the administration undercutting its own medical experts working to combat the pandemic that has killed more than 210,000 Americans. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has been attempting to shore up public confidence in the FDA’s vaccine review for weeks, vowing that career scientists, not politicians, will decide if the shots are safe and effective for mass vaccination.
But President Donald Trump has repeatedly insisted that a vaccine could be authorized before Election Day, even though top government scientists working on the administration’s vaccine effort have stated that that timeline is very unlikely.
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I expect this to be a pretty partisan discussion. In spite of lefties saying we on the right always stick up for Trump no matter what, as one righty, I'm not crazy about this at all.
The question is whether Trump is risking the health or lives of Americans to have a vaccine out by election day, or is the FDA creating new standards so that doesn't happen helping to usher in Joe Biden?
The goal should ne to have a safe vaccine not to have one before election day. What the FDA is doing ,makes sense. Unfortunately I have to conclude that Trump is looking out for himself. He has already shown his lack of compassion by downplaying the virus despite the 200,000+ deaths. I would be very wary of any vaccine developed before the election. I suspect drug companies will be very wary of putting any drug before it is tested. They could be looking at massive lawsuits if it is not. These conspiracy theories do not fly with the ordinary voter. If I were Biden, I would put out ads highlighting these conspiracy theories showing how crazy Trump and his supporters are.
Again, those are made up. There is no 200,000 deaths. We already know for a fact, that because the government increased payouts for deaths due to covid, over deaths from other causes, that hospitals were labeling every death they could as being a covid death, even before they had tests for covid.
There were thousands of deaths across this country, where people were never tested for covid, and yet were labeled a covid death.
Further according to their own numbers, you are less likely to die of Covid, than the flu.
This isn't debatable. It's now fact. For worst cause scenario patients... worst case.... in the highest risk age group of 70+..... the death rate is just 0.093.
The death rate of the flu is 0.1.
So.... Trump was right. That's not up for debate. That is a scientific fact. Trump was right.
The goal should ne to have a safe vaccine not to have one before election day. What the FDA is doing ,makes sense.
So here's my problem.
The FDA added this rule. Meaning, before now, they didn't have this rule. Correct?
So my question to you is.... were the rules the FDA had been using before this..... unsafe?
Why are they changing the rules *NOW*? Why *NOW*? If they needed this new rule before *NOW* then why didn't they implement this rule over the last 10 years? Or 20 years?
Now you might be right about this, I don't know.
My view is still that this is a bad move, because then if anything goes wrong, Trump will get the blame. But we'll see.
