Trump feels scandal in vaccine news

ACurrent US President Donald Trump described the announcement of promising results by the makers of a corona vaccine a few days after the election as politically motivated. The pharmaceutical company Pfizer “did not have the courage” to deliver the good news before the election, slammed Trump Monday night on Twitter. The American company is working with the German company Biontech on the vaccine.

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 earlier, 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.

Criticisms of the FDA

“The FDA and the Democrats didn’t want me to get a vaccine before the election, so it came out five days later.” Trump wrote on Twitter. His administration’s FDA is headed 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.

Pfizer has already denied allegations that the investigation was influenced by politics. You “move to the rhythm of science,” the company explained. Pfizer itself only learned of the interim good results from the latest testing phase on Sunday after independent data experts met. The announcement does not mean that a vaccine is available to you: even if all goes well, it is unlikely that a vaccine will be available before the end of the year. And the starting doses will be limited. Pfizer also cautioned that the vaccination protection rate initially determined could change at the end of the study.