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Friday, December 11, 2020
“Slow old turtle”
Trump is pushing the FDA to approve the vaccine
The FDA prevents you from saving lives, so far the opinion of outgoing US President Trump on the approval process for Biontech and Pfizer’s corona vaccine. Trump exerts massive pressure, insulting authority on Twitter. His successor, Biden, tries to limit the damage.
US President Donald Trump has vehemently urged the FDA to approve corona vaccines immediately. FDA chief Stephen Hahn should get “the damn vaccines out NOW,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Stop playing and start saving lives !!!” The FDA called the president a “big, old, slow turtle.”
The Washington Post reported that Trump’s chief of staff, Mark Meadows, had asked Hahn to resign immediately if a vaccine was not approved today. As a result, the FDA subsequently accelerated its procedure to advance the emergency approval scheduled for tomorrow for the corona vaccine from the Mainz company Biontech and its US pharmaceutical partner Pfizer.
Confidence in the vaccine may decrease
An independent FDA vaccination commission recommended emergency approval for the vaccine last night. Official FDA approval was expected shortly and vaccines could begin on Monday. The pharmaceutical agency announced last Tuesday that it classified the vaccine as safe and effective.
Trump had made the rapid development of the crown vaccines the main goal of his policy in dealing with the deadly pandemic. Experts fear that pressure on regulatory authorities could undermine confidence in future vaccines.
The president-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, campaigned for that reliance on active ingredients. The development and approval of the vaccines proceed “without political influence,” said the 78-year-old in his hometown of Wilmington.
In numerical terms, the US is the country most affected by the corona crisis: since the start of the pandemic, more than 15.7 million infections with the new type of coronavirus have been detected and more than 293,000 have died. people. On Wednesday and Thursday alone, the US recorded more than 3,000 deaths per crown in one day.
