Nine pharmaceutical companies engaged in the development of the Covid-19 vaccine do not want to lend themselves to the electoral campaign maneuvers for the American presidential elections. Albeit indirectly, some giants of Big Pharma they declare that they do not want to play along with US President Donald Trump who seems to be aiming for the vaccine as a winning card in view of the November elections for the White House.
Big Pharma against Trump: no to vaccine for electoral purposes
Yes to speed, but without giving up all mandatory steps to ensure the efficacy and safety of the vaccine that will be created against Covid-19. This is the meaning of declaration signed by pharmaceutical companies AstraZeneca, BioNTech, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, Novavax, Pfizer, Sanofi, along with other foreign companies, which affirm the principle of guaranteeing the health of citizens in the fight against the coronavirus.
All in some way affected by contracts and financing with the US federal administration in the vaccine race that has acquired value since its departure geopolitical equal to or greater than its health protection function.
“Respect all the steps”, Big Pharma stops Trump in the vaccine race
The fear is that the head of the White House could impose on the Food and Drugs Administration, the authority responsible for the authorization of drugs in the USA, the approval of some vaccine candidates, so as to gain an advantage both in the world competition with Russia and China, and in the internal electoral one.
With this statement, making a common front as never before, the Big Pharma companies affirm their intransigence obligatory paths clinical trials, thus wanting to reassure citizens that science will not take shortcuts to get to market a product first with the risk that it is not safe.
Trump recently declared the possibility that the start of the vaccination mass could happen before the vote.
For Trump it would be a precious medal to be pinned to the chest, of the same weight or perhaps even higher than Nobel Peace Prize that in the past few hours the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, the Norwegian Christian Tybring-Gjedde, he proposed to confer on the US president.
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