FDA Chief Contradicts Trump on Vaccine Approval Timeline, Hopes 1st Shot Administered on Monday Newsweek 12/13/2020 Emily Czachor © Morry Gash/Pool/Getty Images Stephen Hahn, commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, said he is hopeful the first COVID-19 vaccines will be administered as early as Monday. Boxes containing the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine are prepared to be shipped at the Pfizer Global Supply Kalamazoo manufacturing plant on December 13, 2020 in Portage, Michigan.
Stephen Hahn, commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), contradicted President Donald Trump s claim that Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine could have received an emergency use authorization earlier than it did.
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President Trump said the United States wouldn t have a vaccine for five years if not for his presidency. If I wasn t president, according to almost everybody, even the enemy, if I wasn t president, you wouldn t have a vaccine for five years, Trump told Fox News s Brian Kilmeade in an interview at West Point. I push the FDA and companies, and everybody else involved like nobody s ever been pushed before. They call it a medical miracle, and it s going to have a tremendous impact, Trump said.
The Food and Drug Administration granted an emergency use authorization for Pfizer and BioNTech s two-stage coronavirus vaccine on Friday. During a Saturday press conference, Gen. Gustave Perna, the chief operating officer for the Department of Defense s Operation Warp Speed, said 145 sites across the country will receive the newly authorized vaccine on Monday.