The FDA is still lacking a Senate-confirmed leader, but the agency is at the center of several major policy battles. Lawmakers this year must renew the bill that authorizes drug companies to pay "user fees," which enable the agency to hire additional reviewers to speed the approval of drugs.
preventing some these things, that we often think of life or death, but people getting sick, people having long-term symptoms the of covid, and people needing hospitalization, and again much less likely in the kids, but it happens. jake, you know, we talk about other vaccines from time to time, and the chicken pox vaccine which was a big deal when it was made available in the country, and people were clamoring for it. and before the vaccine, is it claimed about 100 children s lives in a year, and it was so many that people wanted the vaccine and we are talking about a disease that is about 700-some children have died from it, and contextually it is important to keep it in mind, and also the side effects from the 5 to 11-year-olds seem lower and smaller from kids who are older, jake. thank you, sanjay. good to see you. and now, ahead, the issues that voters care about most. and from the virginia race, and
vaccine the way that states mandate it in different every state has different mandates. but states mandate chicken pox vaccine, mumps, measles, rubella, et cetera, et cetera? once it s fda approved there s no reason for it to be treated differently than any other vaccine. here s the interesting thing. the states with the highest immunization rates for other vaccines for children have are states that have mandates for school entry and virtually no exceptions. so alabama and mississippi have fantastic vaccination rates for their children. and they have the worst vaccination rates for covid for adults and for children. this vaccine needs to be treated the same way. and once it s fda approved, which means that it has the full confidence of our expert scientists in the federal government, we should treat it the way we treat all other vaccines. let s talk about colin powell for a minute, okay? an american hero. a proud republican. an immigrant who was twice
with cell lines, which were cloned copies of cells from decades ago. so we re talking about two abortions, by the way, in the netherlands, one in the 70s, one in the 80s, the abortions were not done for the sake of research, so over decades, you re talking about thousands of generations removed from that fetal tissue, cell lines were developed that were used in research for the vaccines. so they contain no tissue from fetuses. and yet you hear people saying, well, i m not going to have that, i want religious exemption because fetal tissue is being used. that s not correct. that s to say then you shouldn t take chicken pox vaccine or ex-lax. the list goes on and on. i also want to understand this, he said those who refuse the covid-19 vaccine must continue to act in charity for their