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US President Donald Trump complained on Twitter that the announcement of promising results by the manufacturer of a corona vaccine a few days after the US election was politically motivated.
“The FDA and Democrats Didn’t Want Me to Have a Pre-Election Vaccine Success”: Donald Trump on the Time for the Good News. (File image)
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Exchanges around the world reacted positively to the announcement of the vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer.
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The stock market also benefited in Switzerland.
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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 Monday night 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 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.
“The FDA and the Democrats didn’t want me to have a successful 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.
