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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,063 posts)
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:37 PM Aug 2020

Dems want expert panel to OK coronavirus vaccine before mass use

Source: ABC News

House Democrats are calling on the Food and Drug Administration to empower an independent panel of experts to review and sign off before a coronavirus vaccine is distributed to the general public, a move aimed at quelling some health experts' fears the Trump administration might ram through a vaccine candidate ahead of the November election.

A new legislative proposal obtained by ABC News would require the FDA to seek input from the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee in a public hearing before giving an emergency authorization for the widespread use of any COVID-19 vaccine. The bill is expected to be publicly announced on Thursday and formally introduced on Friday by Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, D-Ill., the chairman of the House Oversight Committee Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy.

“While it is essential that a COVID-19 vaccine become available to the public as quickly as possible, it is even more important that quality is not sacrificed for speed in testing and evaluating any such vaccine,” Krishnamoorthi said in a statement, noting that some experts have raised concerns that the Trump administration could seek to politicize the crash effort to find a vaccine under a plan known as Operation Warp Speed.

As recently as Thursday, President Trump suggested that the vaccine could be available around the time of the presidential election in November.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/dems-want-expert-panel-to-ok-coronavirus-vaccine-before-mass-use/ar-BB17EzN2?li=BBnb7Kz

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Dems want expert panel to OK coronavirus vaccine before mass use (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Aug 2020 OP
Sounds like an excellent idea to me! nt woodsprite Aug 2020 #1
I don't trust anything put out while trumps still in office duforsure Aug 2020 #2
Or that some lyin' cheatin' buffoon announces a FAKE vaccine to attempt to win the election bucolic_frolic Aug 2020 #3
+1... IthinkThereforeIAM Aug 2020 #5
Or, within weeks people start dropping dead from whatever the hell's in it. Grokenstein Aug 2020 #8
And Trump puts forth his own expert panel - Jared. keithbvadu2 Aug 2020 #4
As Fauci said: moonscape Aug 2020 #6
We need to know it is safe. warmfeet Aug 2020 #7

bucolic_frolic

(42,662 posts)
3. Or that some lyin' cheatin' buffoon announces a FAKE vaccine to attempt to win the election
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 06:56 PM
Aug 2020

and two months later we find out it was ineffectual home brew and everyone is still getting sick

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
8. Or, within weeks people start dropping dead from whatever the hell's in it.
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 08:00 PM
Aug 2020

Last edited Thu Aug 6, 2020, 09:07 PM - Edit history (1)

Remember, Don-Don himself's an anti-vaxxer. What could possibly promote anti-vax horseshit more than "whoops, bad batch killed a bunch of people"? Plus killing Americans pleases Vladimir. Don-Don couldn't get a lot of followers to guzzle Clorox, but if he could push a murder cocktail disguised as a vaccine...

moonscape

(4,664 posts)
6. As Fauci said:
Thu Aug 6, 2020, 07:22 PM
Aug 2020

“I do hope that the Chinese and the Russians are actually testing the vaccine before they are administering the vaccine to anyone."

In his next statement, may he include us on that country list. Or will we be offered the Russian one?

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