FDA vaccine chief Vinay Prasad proposes stricter testing standards requiring clinical trials in pregnant women, pneumonia proof—experts warn costs, delays would block life-saving vaccines, call COVID death claims irresponsible without evidence.

FDA official proposes ‘impossible’ standards for vaccine testing that could curtail access to immunizations

The top vaccine regulator at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) wants to impose vague but sweeping new standards on vaccine testing that, health experts say, would impede the development of new immunizations and likely curtail access to life-saving shots, according to a memo sent to staff on October 28.Vinay Prasad, MD, MPH, director of the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), proposed the "path forward" in an internal memo in which he claimed—but provided no evidence—t...