1/5 Thread: Many thanks Jim @Acosta for hosting me today @CNNSitRoom where I explained my concerned about EUAs for #COVID19 #vaccines.
Here's why:
Here's why:
2/5 Thread:
1) We don't do EUAs for #vaccines reaching large segments of the US population...
2) ) because it's an incomplete and substandard review
1) We don't do EUAs for #vaccines reaching large segments of the US population...
2) ) because it's an incomplete and substandard review
3/5 Thread:
3) Rightfully, American people don't trust EUAs after FDA implemented and then revoked an EUA this year for hydroxychloroquine, and then the EUA for plasma Rx was poorly explained
3) Rightfully, American people don't trust EUAs after FDA implemented and then revoked an EUA this year for hydroxychloroquine, and then the EUA for plasma Rx was poorly explained
5/5 Thread:
5) For all these reasons, and if we want Americans to accept #COVID19 vaccines, we need the FDA to conduct a full review, bringing in VRBAC and ACIP committees. This approach has had an unparalleled track record of success. Why try to mess to it?
5) For all these reasons, and if we want Americans to accept #COVID19 vaccines, we need the FDA to conduct a full review, bringing in VRBAC and ACIP committees. This approach has had an unparalleled track record of success. Why try to mess to it?
This is especially important because the first Operation Warp Speed vaccines will use new technologies that never before led to licensed vaccines, another reason for a full review and not an EUA
