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BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down
endpts.com ^ | 08.31.2021 | Zachary Brennan

Posted on 08/31/2021 1:24:51 PM PDT by rxsid

BREAKING: In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down

Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA.

Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s ability to regulate vaccines.

The bombshell announcement comes at a particularly crucial moment, as boosters and children’s shots are being weighed by the regulator. The departures also come as the administration has recently jumped ahead of the FDA’s reviews of booster shots, announcing that they might be available by the week of Sept. 20.

A former senior FDA leader told Endpoints that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. The former FDAer also said he’s heard they’re upset with CBER director Peter Marks for not insisting that those decisions should be kept inside FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots.

FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”

“These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”

In a letter from Marks to staff, he explained:



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To: TexasGator; Jane Long

https://www.nippon.com/en/news/yjj2021082601094/

Tokyo, Aug. 26 (Jiji Press)—Foreign materials found in some unused vials of U.S. biotechnology company Moderna Inc.’s COVID-19 vaccine in Japan may have been pieces of metal, sources at the Japanese health ministry said Thursday.

The ministry believes that the foreign objects may have been mixed in with the vaccine vials during the manufacturing process.


81 posted on 08/31/2021 3:40:24 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (fair dinkum!)
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To: TexasGator

I’m not.

You got a complaint, sis?

Take it up with Al Rueters and the Japanese news agency.

Then, get some new reading glasses. And, learn how to research rather than asking others to do it, for you.

And, finally, take your precious, suspended, contaminated vials and kindly buzz off.


82 posted on 08/31/2021 3:40:40 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: CJ Wolf

it’s not impossible


83 posted on 08/31/2021 3:48:46 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: rxsid

In a major blow to vaccine efforts, senior FDA leaders stepping down


“leaders”

They call long-term government employees that.


84 posted on 08/31/2021 3:51:18 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: Fred Nerks

Thanks.

Not worth the trouble, trust me!


85 posted on 08/31/2021 4:00:56 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: rxsid

I thought I read where they are leaving to take jobs with big pharma


86 posted on 08/31/2021 4:15:50 PM PDT by thinden
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To: kiryandil

Specify whom. There are numerous Gators on here... :)


87 posted on 08/31/2021 4:20:13 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator

You’re the GOOD Gator. :)


88 posted on 08/31/2021 4:24:16 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: kiryandil

Thank you.


89 posted on 08/31/2021 4:26:38 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: EEGator
thumbs-up thumbs-up
90 posted on 08/31/2021 4:28:54 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: rxsid

Why leave easy jobs probably making $300K per year?

They can make more from the drug companies who owe them.


91 posted on 08/31/2021 4:35:06 PM PDT by UnwashedPeasant (The pandemic we suffer from is not COVID. It is Marxist Democrat Leftism.)
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To: AnglePark
Concerning new cases and hospitalizations among those jabbed,

"The cat is up on the roof."

92 posted on 08/31/2021 4:39:33 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Jane Long; TexasGator; Mount Athos

Add to this, Japanese have a new phrase モデルナアーム or Moderna Arm...a weeks long saucer sized blotch where they were vaccinated.

Also, Japanese are demanding ALL shots be stopped until an official analysis is made as to what these shots are. I’m sure Moderna has a NDA up the wazoo about this but they did name Takeda Pharma as their distributor and once you’ve lost trust with the Japanese, you never get it back.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they do stop all vaccination and release an extensive report.


93 posted on 08/31/2021 4:42:35 PM PDT by struggle
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To: EEGator

Yes, that was Moderna. They have a contract with a company in Madrid called Rovi, which is where the contaminated vials were shipped from.


94 posted on 08/31/2021 4:45:56 PM PDT by absalom01 (You should do your duty in all things. You cannot do more, and you should never wish to do less.)
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To: rxsid

SOMEONE NEEDS TO FOIA all their emails and records now.


95 posted on 08/31/2021 4:46:30 PM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: TexasGator
https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASP8V5DGGP8VULBJ00N.html

米モデルナ製の新型コロナウイルスワクチンへの異物混入が報告され、一部の接種を見合わせると厚生労働省は明に発表した。異物は金属とみられるという。

Here follows a free translation: There are reports of outside materials mixed into the American Moderna vaccine for the Corona virus, as the Health, Labor, and Welfare ministry annouced one part of innoculations will be suspended. The outside materials are determined to be pieces of metal.

You can google translate that too, if you want.
96 posted on 08/31/2021 4:52:31 PM PDT by struggle
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To: TexasGator

“...due to needles being incorrectly inserted into vials, breaking off bits of the rubber stopper.”

I really needed a good laugh today. Thanks.


97 posted on 08/31/2021 4:56:09 PM PDT by pops88 ( Helping usher the glory of God into Las Vegas)
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To: absalom01

Thank you.


98 posted on 08/31/2021 5:00:08 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Chode

Good post, Chode.

A government that can rationalize a mandate to force citizens to submit to an invasive medical procedure can rationalize anything. It can force you to do anything.

And it can do anything TO you. And will.


99 posted on 08/31/2021 5:05:48 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

p

they can run but they can’t hide....


100 posted on 08/31/2021 6:38:23 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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