House com­mit­tee wants for­mer FDA com­mis­sion­er to come clean on Covid-re­lat­ed po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence

The House Se­lect Sub­com­mit­tee on the Coro­n­avirus Cri­sis on Mon­day ques­tioned for­mer FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn on whether he ac­qui­esced to po­lit­i­cal pres­sure in au­tho­riz­ing the use of hy­drox­y­chloro­quine and con­va­les­cent plas­ma ear­ly in the pan­dem­ic, de­spite lim­it­ed ev­i­dence of their ef­fec­tive­ness.

Hahn pub­licly dis­avowed any po­lit­i­cal in­ter­fer­ence in any of his agency’s EUA de­ci­sions, but be­hind the scenes, the pres­sure clear­ly caught up with him.

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