Posted by Michael Wonder on 21 Sep 2020
You can trust the FDA’s vaccine process
20 September 2020 - The agency can roll out a Covid shot safely, quickly and without bowing to political pressure.
If one or more Covid vaccines prove safe and effective in large clinical trials, the Food and Drug Administration should make them available, in a careful and limited way, to those at highest risk of contracting infection and suffering a bad outcome.
Last week we wrote on these pages how the FDA could allow a Covid vaccine to be used by specific groups of patients through an Emergency Use Authorization. This authority, created by Congress to allow the FDA to respond to a public-health emergency, lets the agency authorize the distribution of a product before a full approval.
