Thread by @bansisharma

1. And They Said Trump Had Politicized CDC

Look at what has happened to CDC under Biden. Has this agency ever been more politicized in its history. CDC memos are practically written by the Teachers Unions now.

2. And now the Biden administration is destroying the FDA. Two of the FDA’s most senior vaccine leaders are exiting from their positions, raising fresh questions about the Biden administration and the way that it’s sidelined the FDA.

3. Marion Gruber, director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research & Review and 32-year veteran of the agency, will leave at the end of October, and OVRR deputy director Phil Krause, who’s been at FDA for more than a decade, will leave in November.

4. The news, first reported by BioCentury, is a massive blow to confidence in the agency’s ability to regulate vaccines.

The bombshell announcement comes at a particularly crucial moment, as boosters and children’s shots are being weighed by the regulator.

5. The departures also come as the administration has recently jumped ahead of the FDA’s reviews of booster shots, announcing that they might be available by the week of Sept. 20.

6. A former senior FDA leader said that they’re departing because they’re frustrated that CDC and their ACIP committee are involved in decisions that they think should be up to the FDA. What finally did it for them was the White House getting ahead of FDA on booster shots.

7. FDA’s former acting chief scientist Luciana Borio added on Twitter, “FDA is losing two giants who helped bring us many safe and effective vaccines over decades of public service.”

https://twitter.com/llborio/status/1432721496623960066?s=20

8. “These two are the leaders for Biologic (vaccine) review in the US. They have a great team, but these two are the true leaders of CBER. A huge global loss if they both leave,” Former BARDA director Rick Bright wrote, weighing in on the news.

9. “Dr. Gruber is much more than the Director. She is a global leader. Visionary mastermind behind global clinical regulatory science for flu, Ebola, Mers, Zika, Sars-cov-2, many others.”

10. So here we are. Biden administration has forced the CDC to do the bidding of teachers unions, followed by issuing unconstitutional eviction moratorium, and then ride toward the nether world of gun control, all while Covid-19 is resurging, and ...

11. ... the best and the brightest in FDA are leaving because of the politicized mess Biden's White House has created by meddling in FDA decisions.

Biden ran on "I will listen to the experts." What an incompetent and mendacious blowhard!

The End