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USA TODAY: FDA faces vaccine test
The authority has taken questionable actions under pressure from the White House
In recent years the antivaccine movement in the US has become something of a disease itself, finding willing hosts in both the conspiracy theorists of the Right and Big Pharma doubters of the Left. In a CNN poll early in October, only about half of Americans said they would try to get a Covid-19 vaccine once one is available.
This makes it vital that government officials avoid sowing further doubt about a vaccine, which is needed to help the nation return to some sort of normalcy. The only way to do that is to insist that all vaccines are thoroughly tested in clinical trials to ensure they are safe and effective...
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