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American Big Pharma to stand against rushing COVID vaccine: sources – Sydney Morning Herald
The joint stance is seen as a bulwark against political pressure being applied on the FDA to release a vaccine as soon as possible.
A vaccine, which will need to be taken by millions of healthy people, requires significant uptake to be effective in batting down the virus in the US. One recent poll found that a majority of the public thought a vaccine approval would be driven by politics.
Health officials inside the Trump administration have said the process would be based entirely on science, and FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn has said he would not participate if he thought a vaccine were being rubber-stamped.
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