Get the damn vaccines out now!’ Trump rages at ‘slow turtle’ FDA for taking so long to approve Pfizer vaccine and tells them ‘stop playing games and start saving lives’ – as Azar says approval may still take ‘a couple of days’
- Trump tweeted on Friday that the FDA was a ‘slow turtle’ taking too long to approve the vaccine
- Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that the FDA ‘told Pfizer it intends to proceed with approval’ but that they were still ‘negotiating’
- It could take several days, he said, before approval is actually given much less rolled out across the country
- He claims the first shots in the arm will be on Monday and Tuesday next week but it’s unclear where
- Meanwhile on Wednesday, the US had its deadliest day yet with 3,144 deaths
- Twenty-three scientists met on Thursday to discuss if the vaccine was safe and effective
- They have recommended to the FDA that it should be approved but it still hasn’t
- Both the UK and Canada approved have already approved vaccine
President Donald Trump raged at the FDA for taking so long to approve Pfizer’s COVID vaccine on Friday morning and ordered them to ‘stop playing games and start saving lives’ as Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said official approval may still take ‘a couple of days’. A panel of 23 independent scientists voted in favor of the vaccine on Thursday and recommended it to the FDA after a day of long, drawn-out talks over whether or not it is safe. But the FDA still has not officially given it approval and the first doses haven’t been distributed yet, even though the UK and Canada have both given it the green light. Health and Human Services Alex Azar says the FDA has told Pfizer it ‘intends to approve’ its COVID vaccine after an excruciating two-and-a-half week wait but inexplicably, it still hasn’t and there is still no date for when the first people will receive it in America. Speaking on Good Morning America, he said: ‘I’ve got some good news for you. Just a little bit ago, the FDA informed Pfizer that they intends to proceed towards approval for its vaccine. ‘In the next couple of days probably as we work to negotiate with Pfizer the information doctors need to prescribe appropriately, we should be seeing the authorization and we’ll be working with Pfizer to get that shipped out so we could be seeing people getting vaccinated Monday, Tuesday of next week.’
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Speaking on Good Morning America, Health and Human Services Alex Azar says the FDA has told Pfizer it ‘intends to approve’ its COVID vaccine after an excruciating two-and-a-half week wait but inexplicably, it still hasn’t
