This is the one area in which I am an absolute expert - and this is 100% right.
Had the safety rules not been changed at the last minute, people would have been vaccinated in late October, and there is zero question in my mind that the only reason for the change was Orange Man Bad.
Per protocol agreed to by FDA and Pfizer, they were to release data after the first 30(?) patients results. That would have been around a week before election.
Per protocol. Agreed to.
Instead, Pfizer got some bureaucrat at FDA to agree to wait until 90(?) patient data came in. A week after the electikn. Very quietly, no fanfare, Pfizer and FDA agreed to not help Trump with the great early data. Showed 80% success (minimum).
Broke. Protocol.