House in­ves­ti­gates Trump’s ‘in­ap­pro­pri­ate’ pres­sure on FDA dur­ing the pan­dem­ic

A House sub­com­mit­tee fo­cused on the pan­dem­ic re­leased an­oth­er scathing re­port on Wednes­day, de­tail­ing the ex­tent to which the White House in­ap­pro­pri­ate­ly pres­sured the FDA and in­ject­ed pol­i­tics in­to a time-sen­si­tive sit­u­a­tion.

The 69-page re­port found that the Trump White House “ex­ert­ed ex­treme and in­ap­pro­pri­ate pres­sure” on FDA and for­mer FDA com­mis­sion­er Stephen Hahn to not on­ly reau­tho­rize hy­drox­y­chloro­quine’s EUA, but de­liv­er mis­lead­ing­ly pos­i­tive news about con­va­les­cent plas­ma on the eve of the 2020 Re­pub­li­can Na­tion­al Con­ven­tion, and to block the is­suance of Covid-19 vac­cine guid­ance, which the agency had to uni­lat­er­al­ly re­lease to re­quire ad­di­tion­al safe­ty da­ta.

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