A 30-year veteran of the Food and Drug Administration said at a congressional hearing this week he resigned in part because top brass sidelined his office to rush the full approval of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine in August 2021, apparently to legally enable a vaccine mandate, then a booster under emergency use authorization over the objections of the agency's outside advisers.
Former Office of Vaccines Research and Review Deputy Director Philip Krause perhaps saved his biggest embarrassment to the FDA for the end of Wednesday's hearing on alleged Biden administration political interference in COVID vaccine review: He declined the booster.
Marks made claims "Not vetted" by the FDA in his dozens of "Just a Minute" videos promoting COVID vaccines, Massie said.
Marks' office considers COVID vaccine trials "Robust" because they were more reliable than those for most of the childhood vaccine schedule, he also said.
Ranking Member Lou Correa, D-Calif., faulted Republicans for "Hyper-focusing on the potential misstatements" about COVID vaccines and held up a chart of "Misrepresentations and untruths," including that vaccines don't stop infection or transmission.
He may have conflated the initial EUA for COVID vaccines in the Trump administration with the BLA approval for Pfizer's vaccine under President Biden, which Gruber and Krause faulted.
Correa cited a modeling study by the Commonwealth Fund, a favorite of Democrats in COVID hearings, that speculates COVID vaccines saved 3.2 million lives between December 2020 and November 2022.
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