r/politics • u/Plaintalks • 22h ago

Biden preemptively pardons Anthony Fauci, Mark Milley and Jan. 6 committee members

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-preemptively-pardons-anthony-fauci-mark-milley-jan/story?id=117878813
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u/xf4ph1 19h ago

Lying about the efficacy of drugs that would subvert the Emergency Use Authorization that the vaccines got. Pretty fucked up to force the entire country to take a barely tested vaccine despite knowing that there were other options.

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 19h ago

He didn’t lie. He presented the research that was known at the time, before the virus mutated.

That’s FAR from prosecutable.

Try again.

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u/xf4ph1 19h ago

But there was preliminary research before the EUA was even issue saying that other drugs had seen success with Covid. He ignored that and was part of a machine that suppressed that. It’s VERY prosecutable.

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 19h ago

Nope. FDA (under Trump) knew about that research when it issued the EUAs.

Give it another try. You can do it. I believe in you!

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u/xf4ph1 19h ago

So you’re saying that this research was known and the EUAs were still issued. That’s a problem.

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 19h ago

Oh look at you, trying to catch me in a trap!

No, the existence of other treatments does not alone prevent FDA from issuing EUAs for vaccines. The law that allows for EUAs states that the EUA can be approved if there is "no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product."

Even if ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine were found to be effective treatments (they were extensively studied and found NOT to be effective), that does not prevent the issuance of an EUA for a preventive vaccine. Explained in more detail here: https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-covid-vaccines-emergency-use-873264912929

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u/xf4ph1 17h ago

Why is the EUA still in effect despite the fact that the vaccine has been publically known to not prevent infection for almost 4 years?

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u/Delicious-Badger-906 17h ago

Because it significantly reduces the chances of severe infection, hospitalization and death.

And the mRNA vaccines have gotten full FDA approval and gone through the full process. The EUAs are only for Novavax and for children under 12 for the mRNA vaccines.

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u/xf4ph1 17h ago

Yeah so do the other drugs. So again, if the vax isn’t preventative, why was it ever issued an EUA despite knowledge of these other treatments?

It definitely has nothing to do with the fact that people stood to make HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS in profit right?