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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – Leading vaccine development companies Pfizer and Moderna turned down US President Donald Trump’s invitation to attend the White House “Vaccine Summit.”
Quoted from CNBC International, the meeting, which is scheduled for Tuesday (8/12/2020), takes place ahead of the US Food and Drug Administration’s review of vaccine candidates for Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech. . (FDA). The meeting will be attended by Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and private sector executives.
Biotech company officials with knowledge of the summit plans interpreted it as an opportunity for the White House to pressure the FDA to immediately issue an emergency use authorization for two candidate vaccines, Stat News reported last week. pass.
Guests at the meeting included drug distributors, pharmacies, and logistics companies such as McKesson, Walgreens Boots Alliance, CVS Health, United Parcel Service, and FedEx.
Stat News previously reported that Pfizer and Moderna would not attend the summit, citing sources with knowledge of the event planning.
Trump’s stance on vaccines has hurt some companies. Trump previously accused a political conspiracy that brought him down after he saw the results of the vaccine’s effectiveness being released after it was confirmed that he had lost to rival Joe Biden.
Meanwhile, the US is still haunted by the large number of Covid-19 cases. Uncle Sam’s country continues to be the country with the largest Covid-19 positive cases in the world. Recorded according to the worldometer as of Tuesday (8/12/2020), there were more than 67 million confirmed positive cases with 1.5 million deaths.
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