As he wraps stormy FDA tenure, Hahn ad­mits 'there was a sub­stan­tial amount of pres­sure' from White House — re­port

Last sum­mer, as drug­mak­ers rushed to test and de­liv­er the first Covid-19 vac­cines in hopes of tam­ing a rag­ing pan­dem­ic, FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn re­peat­ed­ly re­as­sured the pub­lic that he will fight for sci­ence and fend off any politi­ciza­tion. At one point in Au­gust — just be­fore he would ap­pear along­side Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in a con­tro­ver­sial event an­nounc­ing the emer­gency use au­tho­riza­tion of con­va­les­cent plas­ma — he told a re­porter that “I’ve had ab­solute­ly no pres­sure from any­one.”

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