WASHINGTON — When Marty Makary was tapped to guide the Meals and Drug Administration, public well being consultants hoped the Johns Hopkins doctor would defend the company from the vaccine criticism of his boss, well being secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Thus far, that hasn’t been the case. As a substitute, Makary appears simply as prepared to make use of his energy and place to extra harshly scrutinize vaccines and to shift vaccination coverage.
Over the weekend, he signaled that the FDA might depart from longstanding precedent by requiring Covid vaccine makers to submit new effectiveness information earlier than adjusting their merchandise for brand spanking new strains — a regulatory hurdle that might go away folks unprotected from new variations of the illness.
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