‘No need to rush’: Senator warns of FDA’s shortcuts to full approval of COVID-19 vaccine

Sen. Ron Johnson called out the Biden administration's health agencies Sunday for shortcutting the usual safety reviews in a rush to give final approval to COVID-19 vaccines, including failing to account for thousands of deaths and adverse reactions among people worldwide who got the shots.

In a letter to the administration's top health officials, the Wisconsin Republican warned against the Food and Drug Administration's pending approval of Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine, which is expected Monday.

TOP STORIES Republican recall frontrunner Larry Elder called 'Black face of white supremacy' Trump's poll numbers creep up EXCLUSIVE: 'No need to rush': Senator warns of FDA's shortcuts to full approval of COVID-19 vaccine "I see no need to rush the FDA approval process for any of the three COVID-19 vaccines. Expediting the process appears to only serve the political purpose of imposing and enforcing vaccine mandates," Mr. Johnson wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Washington Times.

U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy told "Fox News Sunday" that moving the Pfizer vaccine from "Emergency" to "Full approval" would make mandates more appealing.

The FDA recently told the BMJ, a peer-reviewed British medical journal, that it would not reconvene its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee for the final approval of the Pfizer vaccine.

Mr. Johnson noted that the 12,791 deaths eclipse the 8,966 deaths related to all other vaccines reported on VAERS since its creation 31 years ago.

"The human toll of the social restrictions and economic devastation is incalculable." He concluded: "Unfortunately, your federal health agencies have not been transparent with the American people about how these life-altering decisions have been made or what science and data they are based upon. I urge you to reconsider your decision not to assemble a VRBPAC public meeting prior to the granting of any final COVID-19 vaccine approval."

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