A top FDA official has threatened to resign if the Trump administration moves too quickly to approve a vaccine for COVID-19, according to a published report.
Peter Marks, director of the agency’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), made the threat over concerns a vaccine would be approved without being proven safe and effective, according to a report by Reuters. The news agency quoted Marks as saying that he is not under political pressure to speed a vaccine to market but that he would quit if that changed.
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Filed Under: clinical trials, Drug Discovery and Development, Infectious Disease
