White House may overrule tightening of FDA vaccine rules

Reports on Tuesday suggested the FDA was considering stricter guidelines for emergency-use authorization of a coronavirus vaccine, though the White House may not approve of them.

"It sounds like a political move," President Trump said at a press conference. "When you have Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) and Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) - these great companies coming up with vaccines - and they have done testing and everything else, why would the the FDA have to add great length to the process?"

"We want to have people not get sick, the vaccine is very important, it's the final step. When the companies come back and say we have something that absolutely works - with numbers, statistics and tests - I don't see any reason why it should be delayed further."

"If they delay it a week, or two weeks, or three weeks... that's a lot of lives you're talking about."

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