NBC News
The president, Donald Trump, said Monday that pharmaceutical companies would have to publicize information about the effectiveness of alleged “medications” for COVID-19, although much of that information in general is already available.
Trump wrote on his social truth platform that he has received “extraordinary” data from “Pfizer and others” that, according to him, have not been disclosed to the general population. He said that the information “must now be shown, to the CDC and the people, to clarify this disaster.”
The alleged disaster, according to him, is because there is debate on whether these “drugs for COVID-19” are effective. He said that “many people believe they are a miracle that saved millions of lives, and others disagree.”
The president said that disagreements “have shattered the CDCs”, the centers for disease control and prevention, in apparent reference to the recent dismissal of the agency’s director as well as the subsequent resignation of several high -level doctors.
However, Trump did not clarify to which alleged medications, if perhaps to medicines such as Paxlovid – recognized for some people who show initial symptoms, to help the disease be less serious – or if vaccines.
His administration, with the Secretary of Health Robert F. Kennedy Jr., has adopted skeptical positions on advanced vaccines against COVID developed by companies such as Pfizer with Messenger RNA technology.
Pfizer, the company to which Trump referred to by name in his publication, had not responded so far to request to clarify the situation or make statements. Last week the company publicly released data on the effectiveness of its Vaccine against COVID-19 in a statement.
Modern’s similar vaccine data are also publicly available through the Food and Medicines Administration website (FDA), which is the one that gives approved that some medicine, immunization or treatment can be marketed.
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The FDA recently approved the vaccines against the most recent Covid-19 strains, as with seasonal influenza vaccines because the strains are changing, something that the FDA only does since it has reviewed the efficacy data that pharmaceuticals have to present.
The Department of Health and Human Services under the command of Kennedy Jr. announced that it will be restricted who can access those vaccines endorsed by the FDA: only people over 65 years and children or adults who have at least one underlying medical condition that can put them at risk of suffering from coronavirus as serious illness.
Kennedy Jr. for years has had anti -Vacunas positions. This summer dismissed all members of the Group of Advisors on Vaccination of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The disagreements between his ministry and the specialists of the CDCs led to last week in the dismissal of the director of the Medical Agency, Susan Monaz, and in the resignation of several other executives who left their position in protest.
