Posted on 07/30/2025 9:19:49 AM PDT by Red Badger
Asenior Federal Drug Administration official responsible for a controversial pause of a muscular dystrophy gene therapy abruptly resigned after the incident, reportedly under pressure from the White House.
The official, Dr. Vinay Prasad, who was the head of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, faced specific criticisms for his past support of progressive candidates and disagreements with signature Trump positions, like right-to-try and federal deregulation.
The FDA’s initial decision to freeze distribution of the therapy, marketed as Elevidys, following at least three patient deaths potentially connected to the therapy, also raised alarms with advocates for muscular dystrophy patients and conservative allies of the administration, Just the News reported.
“Dr. Prasad did not want to be a distraction to the great work of the FDA in the Trump administration and has decided to return to California and spend more time with his family,” a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson told CNN.
The outlet reported that Prasad was facing pressure from the White House following days of criticism from right-wing activist Laura Loomer. Prasad was also the subject of several editorial pieces that slammed his past support for progressive causes, medicine rationing, and more centrally controlled regulation in the pharmaceutical space.
“The FDA’s initial decision to freeze distribution of the therapy, marketed as Elevidys, following at least three patient deaths potentially connected to the therapy...”
We’ll never know how many people died from covid shots......but I’d hazzard a guess it’s a damn sight more than 3.
Fer sure!..................
This sometimes happens when drug safety testing is rushed. The idea behind this therapy is good - they want to provide a missing gene in people with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy. However, it looks like it triggers fatal liver failure in some people, and doesn’t work well in others.
The guy was probably right in pausing release of this treatment. However, I could come to the same conclusion without having TDS, to boot.
Sounds like a power-hungry little TWOT who finally got told to Pi$$ off.
6 months too late, tho. The DJT admin should have walked into the WHouse with a hundred page hit list — just hire some dudes to scrape the WWW for arsehole posts. First day of new guy in charge: “What does your post here mean?”
When does the Laura Loomer bashing begin?
She’s a weirdo, but has been more pro-active and effective than Bondi, IMO.
“The idea behind this therapy is good - they want to provide a missing gene in people with Duchenne’s muscular dystrophy.”
IIRC, that procedure has been effective in a few other serious medical syndromes and illnesses. They just have to be careful to test ALL of the possible/probable “cons”.
My niece has a serious issue (can’t recall the name) requiring weekly infusions, and with no cure and a short life span. I believe this replacement gene therapy is showing positive results.
Such a result is only possible with a change in this administration. Under Biden the FDA ignored adverse effects reported to them
The side effects for COVID 19 vaccines were numerous and disturbing. The American Heart Association using the PLUS Cardiac Test generates a score predicting the 5 yr risk (percentage chance) of a new Acute Coronary Syndrome. They concluded that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.
A federal judge ordered Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compliance with a Freedom of Information Act request to disclose Pfizer data that factored into FDA’s recent decision granting the experimental mRNA vaccine an Emergency Use Authorization. The first released data recorded over 800 adverse side effects. Most alarming were acute myocardial infarction, arrhythmia, cardiac failure, cardiogenic shock, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome, stress cardiomyopathy, tachycardia, liver injury, facial paralysis, immune mediated/autoimmune disorders, arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, polyarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, Guillain-Barre syndrome, fibromyalgia/trigeminal neuralgia, amniotic cavity infection, congenital anomaly, death neonatal, eclampsia, and fetal distress syndrome.
Pfizer’s general overview of 42,086 cases of adverse effects in ninety days found 20,112 persons recovered, 1,233 died, and the balance pended resolution.
Court Orders FDA To Comply With FOIA and Release Information On Pfizer Vaccine – First Batch of Documents Shows Over 1,200 Vaccine Deaths WITHIN FIRST 90 DAYS
www.reuters.com/legal/government/paramount-importance-judge-orders-fda-hasten-release-pfizer-vaccine-docs-2022-01-07/
5.3.6 CUMULATIVE ANALYSIS OF POST-AUTHORIZATION ADVERSE EVENT REPORTS OF PF-07302048 (BNT162B2) RECEIVED THROUGH 28-FEB-2021
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/reissue_5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
Vinay Prasad is a great doctor and this is a big loss for the White House.
It is an shame if criticism from Laura Loomer lead to Dr Prasad being outed. He was one of the few sane voices during COVID. As far as being “progressive” I’ve followed his Youtube channel for a long time and he certainly is not “woke”. This is a real loss to the FDA.
You are showing your ignorance. Vinay Prasad, M.D. is anything but power hungry.
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