exerting inappropriate political pressure on fda for doing this? they announced this push for boosters before the fda had said it was kosher. right. and that s the problem. the fda has a remarkable career group of world-class scientists and these are people that spend these are nonpolitical people. they spin through all kinds of administrations and they can t be rushed. i will say there is some suggestion that maybe the fda moved too slow, but they re moving at their pace in the interest of caution and science and getting this right. and there will be pushback when there appears to be political influence. just as the fda refused to be influenced prior to the presidential election when it was apparent that the trump administration was pushing to get a vaccine approved before the election, the fda would not