WaPo: FDA To Set Higher Bar For COVID Vaccine, Likely Delaying Approval Past Election | Talking Points Memo

The Food and Drug Administration is set to issue higher standards before approving a COVID-19 vaccine, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday, a move that could push any vaccine being deployed until after the November election.


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Thar she blows! Thar blows Donnie, a harpoon in his fat side!!

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Man this FDA keeps stumbling and then trying to redeem their reputation, then stumbling again. ETTD.

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Disconcerting for the Criminal-In-Thief :face_with_monocle:

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Someone other than me will have to be the test subjects. I cant say I trust anyone envolved with this study, especially if we are talking about a politicized process, and where profit is concerned.

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Toilet-tweet meltdown in 3, 2, 1…

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Somebody leaked it before the White House got their hands on it - good idea.

Your move cheato.

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It’s sad when “Water is wet” headlines are…headlines.

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So does anyone think they will have an oops moment like the cdc tomorrow

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It’s the deep state conspiring to deny Mousse-olini his entitled second term.

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Not demand? And only 50% effective? So half of the those people will walk around thinking they are protected and they are not.

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They might, but it would limit interest to giving the vaccine only to cadavers.

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FDA Backtracks, Approval Likely Before Election

Tomorrows headline.

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Doesn’t Azar have to sign off on FDA regulations now? Any indication that he’s going to approve this one?

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This will not stop Donnie from sending Barron outside the White House with a COVID vaccine stand. Three for a quarter.

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Andy B. explains the part of this mishegoss he understands.

ATLANTA (The Borowitz Report)—Donald J. Trump was accused of altering the content on the C.D.C. Web site, after a post appeared in which C.D.C. was misspelled.

The post in question urged visitors to stop visiting the C.D.C site for coronavirus guidance because “there’s a lot that scientists don’t know, O.K.?”

“There will be a vaccine very, very soon, and even if there isn’t, the virus will disappear like magic,” the post continued. “We are doing a phenomenal job and deserve an A-plus, quite frankly. Sincerely, the W.W.E.”

At the agency’s headquarters, Dr. Robert Redfield struggled to explain why the C.D.C. had referred to itself by the initials of World Wrestling Entertainment.

“We are working hard internally to make sure that, going forward, everyone at the C.D.C. knows how to spell C.D.C.,” he said.

Redfield declined to respond to a reporter who asked why several words on the site were randomly capitalized and his name was listed as “Dr. Robert Rovfefe.”

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This is a good lesson for all the folks who keep insisting that good feds should all go public and lose their jobs just to talk about the bad things going on.

They’re getting all the stuff they need to out there. Of course trump will overrule this, we all know that. But that’s no reason to say that they all need to lose their careers, or we wouldn’t hear any of this.

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Dr. Fauci would like 75% but said that might not be realistic. Flu vaccines are typicall 40-60% effective. There’s not going to be a 90% effective vaccine. That’s most likely impossible.

A vaccine is part of a good strategy to damp down this coronavirus, but it isn’t going to be a magic bullet.

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yet another word I had to look up. Truly I have led a sheltered life (and growing up in the heart of bible belt Oklahoma didn’t help either)

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By tomorrow morning they will back to saying the vaccine will be ready in mid October come rain or high water. That whatever they said before was a draft released on error.

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