Blimey last week Trump put in a block to undermine the FDA from getting vaccine trials verified!! Unbelievable! Just announced by Pelosi and the rule was put in on November 4th!
I thought Trump wanted to speed up the vaccine, not slow it down?
6 Oct -
"The White House has blocked proposed guidelines by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which would have likely prevented an approved Covid-19 vaccine by the US election on 3 November."
"Last month, the Washington Post reported that the FDA was going to announce tougher standards for the approval of a coronavirus vaccine."
"The FDA planned on asking any manufacturers seeking an emergency approval for a Covid-19 vaccine to go through a more rigorous process than is normally the case."
"The agency suggested that manufacturers follow participants involved in late-stage trials for two months after they had been administered their second vaccine shot, in order to collect enough data on participants to convince the public the dose is safe."
"However, a senior official in the Trump administration confirmed to Reuters on Monday that the White House believed that there was “no clinical or medical reason” for the proposed additional requirement, just a day after the US president said vaccines are “coming momentarily.”
"The official added that the White House was focused on creating a safe vaccine and wanted to make sure “additional loopholes” were not added that would slow down the process."
"The decision follows comments made by Donald Trump last month, where he claimed that any regulatory changes that could affect the authorisation of a vaccine would be “a political move more than anything else.”
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-election/covid-vaccine-fda-white-house-donald-trump-2020-election-b836025.html