Moderna says they have no idea why the FDA changed their mind.
Did they send Trump a golden syringe or something?
Maybe a health care company finally realized that hospital beds cost more than the vaccines and quietly told them to do their jobs, but that’s me being hopeful. It could give AARP another thing to side with Democrats on. If neither are true then yes a bribe and telling Trump what a big dick he has as they did on South Park.
I heard elsewhere one of the more zealous antivax board members was absent when they had their change of heart.
So someone decided to pay their protection money after all.
Could it be that Moderna threatened to pull all R&D and associated money from the US? …. Nah….
(Seriously though, they did threaten and it would have had a large economic impact. Pulling money is just an effective of a bribe as paying money)
$18B value, there are much bigger pharmas.
But BIOGEN successfully blackmailed the FDA in 2021 to approve an Alzheimer drug you never heard of because it never worked and killed many patients.
FDA has a corruption problem, and it’s not just under Trump.
Just to be clear, the FDA has only reversed its refusal to review the vaccine for approval; it hasn’t been approved:
In an announcement Wednesday morning, Moderna said the FDA has now agreed to review its vaccine after the company held a formal (Type A) meeting with the FDA and proposed a change to the regulatory pathways used in the application.
