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On Twitter, the president of the United States criticizes the “lack of courage” of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, which would not have had the courage to announce the good news before the elections.
Acting President Donald Trump described the announcement of promising results by the makers of a corona vaccine a few days after the US election as politically motivated. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer “did not have the courage” to announce the good news before the election, it criticized Trump on Monday night (local time) on Twitter. The American company is working on the vaccine with the German company Biontech.
Trump also criticized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of his administration, which handles approval in his tweet. The FDA should have announced the results sooner, he complained. “Not for political reasons, but to save lives,” Trump wrote. During the election campaign, he had repeatedly promised there would be good news about vaccines before the vote, and he was apparently expecting a political tailwind.
“I didn’t want the vaccine to be successful”
“The FDA and Democrats didn’t want me to have a successful vaccine before the election, so it came out five days later,” Trump wrote on Twitter. The FDA is led by Stephen Hahn, whom the Republican Trump himself appointed.
Biontech and Pfizer were the first Western manufacturers to publish promising results, but limited in the scope of details, on Monday. Consequently, your vaccine offers more than 90 percent protection against Covid-19. The companies want to apply for emergency approval from the FDA starting next week.
(WHAT / dpa)
