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Patrick
2021 Sep 1, 5:55pm
Patrick
2021 Sep 1, 5:55pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
Maybe honesty is not quite dead among FDA officials yet.
Great graphic by the way.
Insiders said they left almost exactly for the reasons that Marks said he would depart for: the White House broadcasting to the world when booster shots would be available, well before the FDA had even conducted its review of the data on boosters.
Maybe honesty is not quite dead among FDA officials yet.
Great graphic by the way.
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HeadSet
2021 Sep 1, 7:18pm
HeadSet
2021 Sep 1, 7:18pm
Al_Sharpton_for_President says
There is now plenty of political meddling, and Marks is not resigning. At least his two underlings have some integrity.
Back when former President Trump was in office, the FDA’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, often told the public: You’ll know if there’s political meddling in our vaccine reviews because if there is, I’ll resign.
There is now plenty of political meddling, and Marks is not resigning. At least his two underlings have some integrity.
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Ceffer
2021 Sep 1, 7:21pm
Ceffer
2021 Sep 1, 7:21pm
Patrick says
That's being handled. They have multiple obese trannies applying for the jobs, who will cooperate with the Gatesian Rockefeller Terror as needed.
Maybe honesty is not quite dead among FDA officials yet.
That's being handled. They have multiple obese trannies applying for the jobs, who will cooperate with the Gatesian Rockefeller Terror as needed.
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Karloff
2021 Sep 1, 8:24pm
Karloff
2021 Sep 1, 8:24pm
The downside to this is, like with the school system and military, once all the decent people have been driven out by the corruption, only the corrupt remain.
Back when former President Trump was in office, the FDA’s top vaccine official, Peter Marks, often told the public: You’ll know if there’s political meddling in our vaccine reviews because if there is, I’ll resign.
Yesterday, two of the most senior vaccine officials under Marks — Marion Gruber, a 32-year veteran of FDA, and Phil Krause, her deputy director — both decided to call it quits.
Insiders said they left almost exactly for the reasons that Marks said he would depart for: the White House broadcasting to the world when booster shots would be available, well before the FDA had even conducted its review of the data on boosters.
Jeffrey Zients, the White House’s Covid-19 response coordinator, tried to calm the tensions in yesterday’s press briefing, telling reporters, “We have been — also been very clear throughout that this is pending FDA conducting an independent evaluation and CDC’s panel of outside experts issuing a booster dose recommendation.”
The damage is done. With just about 3 weeks left before the boosters are supposed to be ready for administration, the FDA is apparently still organizing an adcomm to discuss the boosters, according to a New York Times report. On Monday, the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee suggested that it might only recommend boosters for high-risk people, like seniors and health care workers, which again seemed to poke at the Biden administration’s plan to stick to this eight-month booster schedule for everyone.
And while neither Gruber nor Krause’s retirement is a sign that the vaccines might be unsafe, or that the full approval for Pfizer’s vaccine might now have been unjustified, they do raise questions about political meddling, which only serves to feed these conspiracy theories and embolden anti-vaxxers to make up reasons for their departures.
The Biden administration needs to be transparent here to save the public’s trust in the FDA. With vaccines coming soon too for children under the age of 12, this is a crucial moment in this pandemic for the Biden administration to come clean.
And while acting FDA commissioner Janet Woodcock wished Gruber and Krause well in their departures, it does appear now that Woodcock’s standing with the administration on the booster shot deadline ended up undercutting her FDA colleagues.
Woodcock also sent a memo to staff yesterday, pledging her “full support and complete confidence” in the staff reviews of vaccines.
But Woodcock may be in the lame duck period of her role as acting commissioner, given the recent reports that she’s on the way out in mid-November, further adding to the need for the Biden administration to nominate someone to fill that position as soon as possible, and stop neglecting one of America’s most important public health agencies during a once-in-a-lifetime pandemic.
https://endpts.com/opinion-time-for-biden-to-explain-the-political-meddling-in-covid-vaccine-reviews/