Biden Administration Pressured FDA to Cut Corners Before COVID-19 Jab Approval: Congressional Report
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., says: 'During the pandemic, politics overruled science'
The Biden administration applied pressure on the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to adjust procedures and cut corners to get the approval of the Pfizer COVID-19 jab that allowed President Joe Biden to mandate the vaccines despite known health risks.
Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., the head of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust, said in a statement last week that two top FDA vaccine reviewers announced they were leaving the agency after working there for decades after the Pfizer jab received FDA licensure in August 2021.
“During the pandemic, politics overruled science at the government institutions entrusted with protecting public health,” Massie said. “The FDA abandoned its congressional directive to protect citizens from false claims and undisclosed side effects, and instead ignored its own rules to pursue a policy of promoting the vaccine while downplaying potential harms. Exposing and acknowledging mistakes that were made is a necessary step toward restoring integrity and trust in our regulatory agencies.
”Fox News reported that Massie held a “Follow the Science?” hearing last week and read from past testimony of Dr. Marion Gruber who expressed the need for more trial testing in the pediatric population – namely among males from 12 to 17.
Massie said Gruber was pressured by Dr. Peter Marks, the agency’s top vaccine regulator, to further compress the schedule – despite new concerns about complications.
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“Peter Marks, instead of telling them, 'We’re going to give you more time to study this,' he told them to compress the schedule even more. And when they said that compressing the schedule was not possible, he fired them. He took them off the job, he assigned them to other duties. The top vaccine officials who had been there for 30 years, taken off the job because they wanted more time to study the effects of the vaccines. And they were told they needed to do this quickly because they needed to be mandated”
Gruber and Dr. Philip Krause, testified to Massie’s subcommittee that they felt pressure to cut corners on the vaccine review, which was due to outside pressure to provide immediate approval so that the government could mandate vaccines, the statement read.
Children’s Health Defense reported that Krause testified that the “original timeline to complete the review process for Pfizer’s Biologics License Application (BLA) for its mRNA COVID-19 product was January 2022, but the team was already shooting to have the process completed earlier.”
In early July 2021, “something had happened to completely change the opinion of Drs. Marks and Woodcock regarding the urgency of completing the BLA review,” Krause testified. “It was so important to them that they did not trust the experts who led the Office of Vaccines to do it, even with their help,” he said.
Krause told the committee that on July 19, he and Gruber were taken off the review process and Marks took it over himself.
He testified that the rapid speed of the vaccine mandates after the initial authorization “suggested that the rapid review of the vaccine was motivated more by a desire to mandate vaccines than by other public health considerations.”
TRENDPOST: We informed our readers as early as February of 2021 concerning gain-of-function experimentation that likely occurred in Wuhan, funded by U.S. taxpayer money under Dr. Anthony Fauci.
The supreme irony, of course, is that the same man who acted as a COVID policy expert during the COVID War, has now all but conclusively been shown to have been deceptively up to his neck in the creation of the virus—and then trying to cover up his involvement.