Hahn in­sists FDA will stick to guide­lines for Covid-19 vac­cine de­ci­sions

Speak­ing at the Fi­nan­cial Times’ US Phar­ma and Biotech Sum­mit on Tues­day, FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn said the agency will stick to the stan­dards and cri­te­ria it has laid out to ap­prove or au­tho­rize ap­pli­ca­tions for vac­cines to pre­vent coro­n­avirus dis­ease.

In re­cent weeks, Hahn has made nu­mer­ous state­ments as­sert­ing that the agency will not ap­prove or au­tho­rize a vac­cine that does not meet the agency’s “rig­or­ous ex­pec­ta­tions,” de­spite re­peat­ed claims by Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump that a vac­cine could be green­light­ed be­fore the No­vem­ber elec­tion.

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