Top officials at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) were worried about what they saw as pressure being placed on them by vaccine companies and the White House to clear booster shots, according to newly released emails.
Dr. Marion Gruber, the director of the FDA’s Office of Vaccines Research and Review (OVRR), said that she was “very concerned that companies (such as Pfizer and Janssen) are trying to put pressure on OVRR by way of PR,” or public relations, in one of the missives.
“We need to be given time to consider their data and cannot be pushed by these companies and, for that matter the Administration, who try to impose timeless [sic] that make no sense,” Gruber told Dr. Peter Marks, the director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, in the Aug. 25, 2021, email….