food and drug administration
Our public health system needs an overhaul — Congress can start here
Two years and numerous variants into the COVID-19 pandemic, our national response continues to be defined by mixed messages and unforced errors. Try as we might, that isn’t going to change until and unless we overhaul our public health infrastructure. The fact is, our current patchwork of federal institutions — namely the Centers for Disease …
Pivotal Studies of Covid-19 Vaccines From AstraZeneca, J&J Resuming
The restarts mean testing of two of the most advanced Covid-19 vaccines in development can get back on track after their testing had been sidetracked. The testing is crucial for regulators to evaluate whether the vaccines safely protect against the virus and should be given widely. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had wrapped up …
Gottlieb says U.S. “right back where we were” at earlier peak of coronavirus outbreak
Washington — Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, warned Sunday that the United States is “right back where we were” when the country experienced its first peak in coronavirus infections earlier this year. “We’re right back where we were at the peak of the epidemic during the New York …