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Two senior FDA vaccine leaders step down as agency faces decision on boosters
CNN ^ | Sep 1, 2021 | Nadia Kounang, Virginia Langmaid and Amanda Sealy

Posted on 09/01/2021 2:40:23 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege

Two senior leaders in the US Food and Drug Administration's vaccine review office are stepping down, even as the agency works toward high-profile decisions around Covid-19 vaccine approvals, authorizations for younger children and booster shots.

The retirements of Dr. Marion Gruber, director of the Office of Vaccines Research and Review at FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and Dr. Philip Krause, deputy director of the office, were announced in an internal agency email sent on Tuesday and shared with CNN by the FDA.

The letter made no mention about why Gruber and Krause are leaving, but the departures sparked questions about whether it would affect FDA's work during the pandemic.

A source familiar with the situation told CNN there have been frustrations within the FDA when it comes to vaccines.

According to the source, one issue has been that there are concerns that the CDC and its advisory committee have gotten into the FDA's lane when it comes to vaccines.

However, the largest issue seems to be that by setting a goal for boosters, the White House is getting ahead of where the science is and "prejudging what the FDA would say."

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Society
KEYWORDS: again; andagain; boosters; cdc; fda; moderna; pfizer; postedseveraltimes; steppeddownagain; vaccines

1 posted on 09/01/2021 2:40:23 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
the White House is getting ahead of where the science is and "prejudging what the FDA would say."

No doubt. If only members of the Joints Chiefs had such principles.

2 posted on 09/01/2021 2:45:49 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

well, you’ve got to give him this: Millie is Thoroughly Modern...


3 posted on 09/01/2021 2:50:42 PM PDT by Migraine
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

but not stepping down today...

Why is it that when liberals resign in protest they dont leave for 2 years ???


4 posted on 09/01/2021 2:54:00 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

but not stepping down today...

Why is it that when liberals resign in protest they dont leave for 2 years ???


5 posted on 09/01/2021 2:54:06 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The vax and masks don’t work.


6 posted on 09/01/2021 2:56:05 PM PDT by bray (Time to resign Joe)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

oh gee. whos’ ‘politicizing’ the vaccine now, Dems?


7 posted on 09/01/2021 3:03:22 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
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To: Tennessee Nana
Why is it that when liberals resign in protest they dont leave for 2 years ???

They need to collect their monthly bribe checks from the drug companies for a couple more months to pay off the new pool house.

8 posted on 09/01/2021 3:10:53 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege
Most of the severe side effects happen after the second jab.

It only makes sense to me that with every successive booster shot the odds of a debilitating side effect would rise.

Maybe these fellows have similar reservations and don’t want to be around for the fallout when people start dropping like flies.

9 posted on 09/01/2021 3:14:32 PM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Are they returning to executive jobs with pharmaceutical companies?


10 posted on 09/01/2021 3:33:26 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The FDA is a pharmaceutical industry trade association. Their jo is to promote the pharmaceutical industry and its product, not to protect the public.


11 posted on 09/01/2021 3:34:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

The world is now officially upside down: Evil is good and good is evil!
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-08-31-arkansas-board-investigates-doctor-saving-lives-ivermectin.html


12 posted on 09/01/2021 4:22:26 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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