The Independent employs journalists from around the world to bring you truly independent journalism. To support us, consider a contribution. United States Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to endorse Donald Trump’s claim that 99 percent of Covid-19 cases in the United States are “totally harmless,” a Even …
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Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Stephen Hahn said Sunday he would not make a prediction about when a coronavirus vaccine would be available after President TrumpDonald John Trump protesters tear down the Christopher Columbus statue on Baltimore Independence Day star Bill Pullman, urging Americans to wear a “mask of …
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Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb warned Sunday that mortality from coronavirus cases will increase in the near future. Gottlieb noted that a better understanding of the coronavirus and a higher proportion of infections in younger people is currently causing fewer deaths, but said on CBS ‘”Face the …
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Washington Dr. Scott Gottlieb, a former commissioner for the Food and Drug Administration, warned Sunday that the United States is “right where we were” when the country experienced its first peak of coronavirus infections earlier this year. “We are right where we were at the peak of the epidemic during …
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