A former Food and Drug Administration (FDA) official says COVID-19 vaccine mandates make little sense and that courts ruled correctly in recently blocking several mandates. Rik Mehta spent time as a deputy division director and a consumer safety officer in the FDA during the Obama administration. He’s also worked for Pfizer, one of the three companies whose COVID-19 vaccines are authorized for use in the United States, and was a Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate in New Jersey in the 2020 election. Mehta told NTD Television that the mandates are an example of government overreach. “What’s going on right now is what I call unprecedented, unethical, and unconstitutional,” he said. President Joe Biden and his administration have issued a flurry of mandates in recent months after their failure to fulfill Biden’s campaign promise to “shut down the virus” that causes COVID-19. Federal workers, federal contractors, healthcare workers, and military …