Last week, former FDA commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb suggested that we "hit the reset" button on Covid-19 vaccine distribution.
That reset should include taking the government out of the equation. The government has largely failed to get life-saving vaccines into the arms of Americans. And the consequences are deadly.
The government's botched rollout of the coronavirus vaccine stands out as Exhibit A in the argument against more government control over our health care.
Amazingly, inventing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine may turn out to have been the easy part. Less than a year after the first coronavirus case was identified in the United States, vaccines developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based Moderna and by U.S. drug titan Pfizer and German start-up BioNTech received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Johnson & Johnson just released promising clinical-trial data showing that its one-dose vaccine candidate is both safe and effective. It is poised to enter Phase 3 FDA trials very soon.
Now, those two approved vaccines are sitting in freezers. Of the 31 million vaccine doses distributed nationwide, only 12 million have been administered to patients.
Confusion reigns among the web of government entities at the federal and state levels responsible for distribution....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallyp...ne-distribution-be-a-warning/?sh=129015d0eadc
That reset should include taking the government out of the equation. The government has largely failed to get life-saving vaccines into the arms of Americans. And the consequences are deadly.
The government's botched rollout of the coronavirus vaccine stands out as Exhibit A in the argument against more government control over our health care.
Amazingly, inventing a safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine may turn out to have been the easy part. Less than a year after the first coronavirus case was identified in the United States, vaccines developed by Cambridge, Mass.-based Moderna and by U.S. drug titan Pfizer and German start-up BioNTech received emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Johnson & Johnson just released promising clinical-trial data showing that its one-dose vaccine candidate is both safe and effective. It is poised to enter Phase 3 FDA trials very soon.
Now, those two approved vaccines are sitting in freezers. Of the 31 million vaccine doses distributed nationwide, only 12 million have been administered to patients.
Confusion reigns among the web of government entities at the federal and state levels responsible for distribution....
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallyp...ne-distribution-be-a-warning/?sh=129015d0eadc
