U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday accused, without providing any evidence, the US Food and Drug Administration of deliberately delaying coronavirus vaccine trials, pressuring the man he had picked to head the agency.
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He accused the agency of delaying a vaccine for the virus until after the fall election, tweeting, "Obviously, they are hoping to delay the answer until after November 3rd. Must focus on speed, and saving lives!" Trump ended his tweet by tagging the Twitter account of FDA Commissioner Dr. Stephen Hahn, who he nominated last year to take up the role.
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization said Saturday that the industry is "eager" to deliver a vaccine as quickly as possible, but can "only move as fast as the science allows us." A CNN poll in May found one-third of Americans said they would not try to get vaccinated against COVID-19, even if the vaccine is widely available and low-cost.
Trump promoted the antimalarial drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine as a Covid-19 treatment, even as the FDA warned the public that the drugs should only be used in hospitals or clinical trials because they can kill or cause serious side effects. in June, the agency revoked its emergency use authorization for hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine for coronavirus treatment, saying the drugs are unlikely to be effective in treating the virus based on the latest scientific evidence.
Former FDA Commissioner Robert Califf, who led the agency from February 2016 until January 2017, said in series of tweets Saturday that "one of the great things" about the agency is that "decisions are made by full-time civil servants without conflicts." It's the FDA commissioner's job, he said, to "protect this critical independence" of that judgment.
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