Mitch Mc­Connell, top Re­pub­li­cans ques­tion Biden on get­ting ahead of FDA on Covid-19 boost­ers

Sen­ate Mi­nor­i­ty Leader Mitch Mc­Connell, Sen­ate Health Com­mit­tee rank­ing mem­ber Richard Burr and oth­er top Re­pub­li­cans are ques­tion­ing the Biden ad­min­is­tra­tion’s de­ci­sion to get out in front of the FDA and an­nounce that Covid-19 vac­cine boost­ers would be ready for ad­min­is­tra­tion by this week.

While Burr praised the FDA’s EUA for the boost­ers Wednes­day evening, the Re­pub­li­cans ear­li­er in the day called on White House coro­n­avirus re­sponse co­or­di­na­tor Jef­frey Zients to re­lease an up­dat­ed strat­e­gy on lever­ag­ing vac­cines to end the pan­dem­ic and to clar­i­fy what ex­act­ly hap­pened with the pre­ma­ture an­nounce­ment on the boost­ers.

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