#FDA is being bullied by the White House and pressured to allow emergency use of products to treat #COVID19 without the data to back up those actions, @DrPaulOffit said.
.@DrPaulOffit said he was concerned the #FDA would be forced by Trump to rush a #COVID19 vaccine to the market under an EUA before the product was thoroughly vetted.
.@DrPaulOffit said the EUA for #ConvalescentPlasma concerns him that "it sets yet another precedent to make you worried about the fact that the administration is willing to bully its science-based agencies."
.@WHCOVIDResponse briefing coming up at 10:30amET with someone different today: #HHS@SecBecerra, who's joining @CDCDirector Walensky, #NIH Fauci, Jeff Zients to discuss a roadmap to enable US to move forward safely & sustain/build on progress #COVID19😷
"Throughout our history we’ve learned this lesson – when dictators do not pay a price for their aggression, they cause more chaos. They keep moving. And, the costs & threats to America & the world keep rising.
"#Putin’s war was premeditated & unprovoked. He rejected efforts at diplomacy. He thought the West & @NATO wouldn’t respond. And, he thought he could divide us here at home.
Putin was wrong. We were ready."
.@VP@KamalaHarris: For the last year we've had people in positions of incredible power scapegoating Asian-Americans. People with the biggest pulpits spreading this kind of hate.
.@VP@KamalaHarris: A harm against any one of us is a harm against all of us.
The president and I will not be silent. We will not stand by. We will always speak out against violence, hate crimes & discrimination, wherever and whenever it occurs.