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Trump Floats Overruling FDA Vaccine Standards, Because Even Public Health Gets The Campaign Treatment

Trump attacked a pending FDA plan for tougher emergency-use standards for a COVID-19 vaccine, calling it political and hinting the White House might reject it. That set off fresh alarms about interference with the vaccine process at exactly the moment the public needed confidence. The danger was obvious: if the president keeps treating science as an opposition research target, any eventual vaccine approval will look contaminated before it even happens.

Why it matters: vaccine politics

First recorded Sep 24, 2020·Meaningfully updated Sep 24, 2020

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Trump Floats Overruling FDA Vaccine Standards, Because Even Public Health Gets The Campaign Treatment

Trump attacked a pending FDA plan for tougher emergency-use standards for a COVID-19 vaccine, calling it political and hinting the White House might reject it. That set off fresh alarms about interference with the vaccine process at exactly the moment the public needed confidence. The danger was obvious: if the president keeps treating science as an opposition research target, any eventual vaccine approval will look…

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