Former FDA leaders call out White House for undermining FDA 

Hours before the first presidential debate, seven former FDA commissioners called out the “deeply troubling ways” the White House is pressuring the agency in its decisions related to COVID-19 countermeasures.

“A safe and effective vaccine will not be enough; people will also have to choose to take it,” the commissioners wrote in an op-ed in The Washington Post. “This depends on widespread confidence that the vaccine approval was based on sound science and not politics. If the White House takes the unprecedented step of trying to tip the scales on how safety and benefits will be judged, the impact on public trust will render an effective vaccine much less so.”...