Washington, United States — US President Donald Trump’s White House reportedly told the head of the country’s drug regulator to approve Pfizer-BioNTech’s COVID vaccine by the end of Friday or resign, after indications the first immunizations were imminent.
The threat reported by The Washington Post came on the same day Trump tweeted that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) was a “big, old, slow turtle” and told its commissioner, Stephen Hahn, to “Get the dam(n) vaccines out NOW.”
The Post reported that White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows had delivered the resignation threat to Hahn.
The report followed comments by the country’s health secretary earlier in the day…
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