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Signs of an 'October vaccine surprise' alarm scientists
Such a move could further erode public trust in a vaccine and foist an unsafe shot on Americans.
Sept. 21, 2020, 1:53 PM EDT / Updated Sept. 21, 2020, 3:35 PM EDT
By Liz Szabo and JoNel Aleccia | Kaiser Health News
President Donald Trump, who seems intent on announcing a Covid-19 vaccine before Election Day, could legally authorize a vaccine over the objections of experts, officials at the Food and Drug Administration and even vaccine manufacturers, who have pledged not to release any vaccine unless its proved safe and effective.
In podcasts, public forums, social media and medical journals, a growing number of prominent health leaders say they fear that Trump who has repeatedly signaled his desire for the swift approval of a vaccine and his displeasure with perceived delays at the FDA will take matters into his own hands, running roughshod over the usual regulatory process.
The worries intensified over the weekend, after Alex Azar, the administrations secretary of Health and Human Services, asserted his agencys rule-making authority over the FDA. The fear is that Trump's pressure on the HHS could influence the speed of an authorization. HHS spokesperson Caitlin Oakley said Azars decision had no bearing on the vaccine approval process.
An intervention in the process would signal another injection of politics into a sensitive public health decision by the norm-breaking Trump administration. Trump has repeatedly contradicted the advice of senior scientists on Covid-19 while pushing controversial treatments for the disease.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/signs-october-vaccine-surprise-alarm-scientists-n1240617
SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)These pharmaceutical companies are private corporations, not government agencies. How can he order a private corporation to release a vaccine whenever he wants them to? Does he have a legal right to do that, and who in their right fucking mind would ever let that stuff be injected into their bodies?
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)That essentially allows him to order targeted companies to make something that he deems in the national defense.
That is one reason why I hope that this country never again elect a corrupt, self-dealing person like Trump. He doesnt care how many people get harmed if he thinks that doing an act will benefit him.
PSPS
(13,594 posts)SergeStorms
(19,200 posts)Get fat government contracts with no liability if everyone grows another nose out of their foreheads. It's the American way!
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)I'd like to see the side effects in a 60 million person "sample".
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)He loses everyone else. The signs have to be very strong that the vaccine will work for such a move to help him, absent that, he is stepping into a trap that overwhelmingly elects Joe Biden.
kysrsoze
(6,019 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)damages him, especially when people in the know start leaking information in the last couple weeks of the Fall campaign.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)This.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)an experiment. We all will not take the vaccine, period, zippo, nada.
napi21
(45,806 posts)things like how long immunity might last per of there are any long term effects from the vaccine. Certainly scary for those who decide to try it. I'm not sure I'd try it. You
If you?
Walleye
(31,017 posts)Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)Trump has to announce before "that Special Day", as he himself said.
Once November 3rd has passed, nobody in the Administration is going to give a flying fuck about a vaccine.
It's just like The Wall.
Vaporware.
Initech
(100,068 posts)Trump's base is largely anti-vaxxer and believes that the virus is a hoax. And there's no way most of us on this side would trust any medicine that Trump has to sell. So him touting a vaccine at this point will be a lose - lose situation for him.
Disaffected
(4,554 posts)Phase Four trial.
Wait a while and enjoy the outcome...
mjvpi
(1,388 posts)To be delivered in October. At 3 times the expected price of other vaccines. Paid for out of DHS money. Im only being 50% sarcastic.
Duppers
(28,120 posts)No sarcasm necessary.
Demobrat
(8,976 posts)and they all think Covid is a hoax anyway.
So how does that work? Heres a beautiful vaccine for a virus that doesnt exist?
Dont wear a mask, but do let us inject you with a vaccine we rushed to market to influence the election?
The virus is fake, but the vaccine is real?
Are even Trump humpers really that dumb?
Sadly.