U.S. President Donald Trump within the Cupboard Room of the White Home on Aug. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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President Donald Trump on Monday referred to as on pharmaceutical corporations to “justify the success” of their Covid medicine days after the Meals and Drug Administration set new limits on who can obtain vaccines for the virus.
“It is vitally vital that the Drug Corporations justify the success of their numerous Covid Medicine. Many individuals suppose they’re a miracle that saved Hundreds of thousands of lives. Others disagree!” Trump wrote in a Reality Social submit.
The FDA on Wednesday accepted the newest spherical of Covid vaccines, however just for folks at greater threat of extreme sickness.
The president’s feedback additionally come days after he fired Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention Director Susan Monarez after she refused to resign. 4 different prime well being officers on the CDC additionally introduced they had been quitting the company final week, together with Demetre Daskalakis, director of the Nationwide Middle for Immunization and Respiratory Ailments.
“With CDC being ripped aside over this query, I need the reply, and I need it NOW,” Trump stated within the submit.
“I’ve been proven data from Pfizer, and others, that’s extraordinary, however they by no means appear to indicate these outcomes to the general public. Why not???” the president wrote.
Pfizer didn’t instantly reply to CNBC’s request for remark.
The management upheaval on the CDC follows a sequence of measures by Well being and Human Companies Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overtake federal well being companies and alter U.S. immunization insurance policies. He has instituted mass firings, gutted a key authorities vaccine panel and canceled research on mRNA shot know-how.
Trump urged drug corporations to be extra clear about their outcomes to “clear up this MESS,” writing that drugmakers “let everybody rip themselves aside, together with Bobby Kennedy Jr. and CDC, attempting to determine the success or failure of the Drug Corporations Covid work.”
Trump within the submit additionally continued to tout Operation Warp Pace, his first administration’s pandemic vaccine effort launched in Could 2020 to speed up the event, manufacturing and distribution of Covid vaccines and therapeutics.
But Kennedy — a distinguished vaccine skeptic — has downplayed the efficacy of vaccinations.
In a visitor essay printed within the New York Occasions on Monday, a gaggle of 9 former administrators and appearing administrators of the CDC stated Kennedy is “endangering” People’ well being.
“What [Kennedy] has carried out to the C.D.C. and to our nation’s public well being system over the previous a number of months — culminating in his choice to fireplace Dr. Susan Monarez as C.D.C. director days in the past — is not like something we have now ever seen on the company, and in contrast to something our nation has ever skilled,” the group wrote.
“We’re nervous concerning the wide-ranging influence that every one these selections may have on America’s well being safety,” they stated.
