Since the start of the novel coronavirus pandemic, a number of pharmaceutical companies and government agencies have rushed to create a vaccine on a timeline greatly accelerated compared to what is normal for the industry. Trump himself has played up Moderna's supposed speed in developing a vaccine, bragging in July that Moderna entered Phase Three clinical trials in "record time." …
The commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, Dr. Stephen Hahn — who recently apologized for advertising an unproven COVID-19 treatment — is now facing fire for telling the Financial Times last week that his agency is prepared to authorize a vaccine before Phase Three clinical trials are complete. Former FDA Commissioner Dr. Peggy Hamburg was quoted by MSNBC journalist …
