FDA Director “A major milestone for urgent vaccine approval…I would fit it too”

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(Washington = Yonhap News) Correspondent Na-ri Paik = Stephen Han, director of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), emphasized that the vaccination was safe, saying that there was no external pressure in urgent approval of the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) vaccine.

According to foreign media such as Reuters, Director Han held a video press conference on the 12th (local time), the day after the emergency approval, and said that there was no external pressure in the emergency approval. “This vaccine met the strict standards of the FDA.”

The White House pressured him to dispel any doubts about sacrificing safety by quickly granting emergency approval.

“I’ll get the vaccine,” he said.

The previous day, the Washington Post (WP) and other US media reported that in a telephone conversation with Director Han, Chief Executive of the White House, Mark Meadows put pressure on him to resign if he did not give an emergency approval within the 11th.

Subsequently, on the night of the 11th, an emergency approval was carried out, raising doubts about whether the safety of the vaccine could be trusted.

Director Han said the report was inaccurate. In a statement made the night before, he explained that the report and related “the phone call with the secretary’s office was incorrectly explained.”

“The FDA’s emergency approval is a major milestone in the response to the devastating pandemic pandemic that has affected countless families around the United States and around the world,” said Director Han. Director Han made the same statement immediately after the emergency approval the night before.

The COVID-19 vaccine, jointly developed by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German Bioentech, was approved by the FDA advisory committee on the 10th and the FDA emergency approval on the 11th.

With the emergency approval of the FDA, the distribution of the vaccine became possible, and the vaccination starts when the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends vaccination after a meeting of the Advisory Committee on the 12th.

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