The shots are saving lives, but we don’t know their long-term effects thanks to an agency that often answers to industry instead of the public.
The FDA Cut Off Covid Vaccine Testing. That Was a Really Bad Idea. | Washington Monthly
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Under pressure from the Trump White House on the eve of the Republican National Convention, the Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization yesterday for a potential therapeutic against COVID-19. But mainstream news coverage of the announcement largely ignored objections from public health experts that critical data needed to justify this move from the FDA is missing.
Media outlets ignore objections from public health experts on FDA emergency use authorization of convalescent plasma | Media Matters for America
“On the criminally irresponsible directives issued and at the insistence by Trump medications are now being promoted and politicized for use in the USA that show little or no effect on Covid-19 other than saving stockmarket shares and the political image of a president rather than lives of Americans on a “what have we got to lose” basis. Trials have shown that the success rate is as good as Trump’s suggestion to use disinfectant. ( ODT)
Emergency drug approval differs from full FDA approval in that it is only valid while the emergency declaration – in this case, the coronavirus pandemic – remains in effect. Remdesivir is not the first drug to receive such approval for treating Covid-19 – the malaria drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine were approved on an emergency basis in late March.
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