There’s an increasing demand for the monkeypox vaccine here in the United States, but people will have to wait because the FDA literally just got around to inspecting the factory in Denmark that manufactured the vaccine and it’s not yet cleared for distribution:
FDA officials took months to inspect a critical pharmaceutical plant in Europe, leaving Americans without shots as monkeypox spreads. @MrJDWalsh reports https://t.co/wEQJg7ZFAg
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 8, 2022
The FDA reportedly “only began to inspect the facility last week”:
FDA officials only began to inspect the facility last week. The lag time, public-health experts say, is indicative of the federal government’s lackadaisical approach to a growing public-health emergency https://t.co/wEQJg7ZFAg
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 8, 2022
The vaccine, which America already paid for, is cleared for use by the EU:
Absolute insanity: The Biden Admin won't accept 1 million doses of Monkeypox vaccine from Denmark because the FDA failed to do a timely inspection of the plant — even though EU authorities did inspect the plant and approved its product for use in the EU. https://t.co/quqedbtVHp
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 11, 2022
Nobody was fired at the FDA when they messed up Covid tests at the beginning of the pandemic and nobody was fired at the FDA over the baby formula shortage and we expect nobody will be fired over this:
I literally don't get how the "but my paperwork!!" crowd at the FDA sleeps at night. They've been so consistently behind the curve on approvals — with much greater consequence on COVID, but also with Monkeypox.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 11, 2022
Maybe it’s time to, you know, clean house at the FDA?
Literally we have *bought* these doses already and they're sitting in a freezer in Denmark until some bureaucrats decide to allow them into the US.
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) July 11, 2022
No rush, White House:
As monkeypox cases have ticked up nationwide, the White House and federal agencies have repeatedly assured the public that millions of vaccine doses will be distributed to at-risk populations before the end of the year https://t.co/wEQJg7ZFAg
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 8, 2022
Yet, the FDA will make them wait:
"Is there *anyone* in the United States who is saying, 'I am at risk of Monkeypox and I want the vaccine but I don’t trust the European Medicines Agency to run the inspection. I’d rather wait for the FDA!'" https://t.co/TAz76kiPdm
— Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome) July 12, 2022
Our “health experts” learned nothing over the past 3 years:
Truly incredible how we have failed to institutionalize any better attitude at all on this stuff; you're seeing it with monkeypox testing and vaccines. It's one thing to worry about paperwork in ordinary times; you *must* have a way to bypass it in emergencies.
— Patrick Brennan (@ptbrennan11) July 11, 2022
Does anyone have any confidence in the CDC or the FDA any longer?
Unlike Covid, we knew the monkeypox virus. We prepared vaccines for it. We had a million ready to go. And the feds tell us to wait weeks to get more than a handful. The CDC and FDA are failed institutions.
— Andrew Sullivan (@sullydish) July 5, 2022
Just like what happened with baby formula:
“My impression is that there is very little coordination and leadership across the U.S. government about what’s going on here,” says a former senior U.S. official who has been in touch with the White House about the monkeypox response. @MrJDWalsh reports https://t.co/wEQJg7ZFAg
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) July 8, 2022
Time to make some changes, Mr. President.
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