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Vinay Prasad, Critic of COVID Measures, Picked as FDA's Top Vaccine Official
Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, a frequent critic of the FDA and COVID-19 lockdowns and vaccination policies, will be the next ...
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Vinay Prasad’s FDA Appointment ‘Anything but Status Quo’
The UCSF professor and frequent YouTube poster has criticized COVID-19 vaccine mandates as well as the accelerated approval ...
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FDA taps critic of COVID policies, drug industry to lead vaccines division
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has tapped Vinay Prasad, a prominent critic of federal COVID-19 policies and a proponent of more stringent approval standards, to lead the agency’s ...
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Vinay Prasad, in his own words, outlines the philosophy he’ll bring to the FDA
Not Vinay Prasad. The new top regulator of vaccines ... sees as the limited evidence of their effectiveness. During the Covid-19 pandemic, he criticized the use of boosters in young people and ...
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Vinay Prasad Speaks to CBER Staff: Which Prasad Showed Up?
The question on many minds among FDA rank-and-file in attendance was: Which Prasad would show up? The 2010s Prasad -- a ...
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FDA picks critic of COVID boosters to be new top vaccines official
Prasad has long criticized the FDA for granting emergency use authorization for COVID-19 vaccine boosters, saying last year that Marks was "either incompetent or corrupt to authorize a booster ...
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Critic of drug industry and COVID-19 measures to lead FDA vaccine program
Prasad is the latest in a series of medical contrarians and critics of COVID-19 measures to join the federal government under President Donald Trump. Unlike political roles such as FDA ...