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WASHINGTON — Two top Food and Drug Administration officials, suddenly at the center of the White House’s effort to speed approval for Covid-19 vaccines, will recuse themselves from the agency’s considerations about whether to approve those products, according to an email obtained by STAT.
So Japan approving REMDESIVIR and the EMA’s imminent aprroval of remdesivir would also be regarded as
questionable requiring careful review of everyone involved for their potential conflict of interest? Should someone from activist group be included for the covid-19 drug or biologics review processbin order to placate them? Ridiculous!