FDA vaccine official restricted COVID vaccine approvals against the advice of agency staff
The new memos from the Food and Drug Administration show how the agency's vaccine chief, Dr. Vinay Prasad, personally intervened to place restrictions on COVID shots from vaccine makers Novavax and Moderna.
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