Dr. Hotez: What FDA Is Doing ‘Is Really a Way of Denying [Covid] Vaccine Access for Those Who Want It’

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HOTEZ: “Remember, this is a thromboembolic virus. It's a virus that causes strokes and heart attacks. They're not looking at the chronic implications of Covid. And I think that's a mistake. And then the other is the idea that they'll allow universal vaccination, provided the pharma companies now conduct a brand new round of clinical trials for each updated variant. It's not realistic, because it can take months and months to do the enrollment. The expense of doing a trial to, especially now when everyone's been either previously infected or infected and vaccinated or vaccinated and infected, it would be a massive, massive study that would be prohibitively expensive. It basically means the pharma companies are probably not likely to pursue that. So it's really a way of denying vaccine access for those who want it.”