>>14435375 (lb/pb)
>Food and Drug Administration gives full approval to the Pfizer COVID vaccine.
Those that ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
THALIDOMIDE
"What stood between the drug and the health of the American public was none other than Kelsey and the FDA. As a medical reviewer, Kelsey had the power to prevent a drug from going to market if she found the application to be lacking sufficient evidence for safety. After a thorough review, Kelsey rejected the application for thalidomide on the grounds that it lacked sufficient evidence of safety through rigorous clinical trials."
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/woman-who-stood-between-america-and-epidemic-birth-defects-180963165/
I guess they don't have such high standards anymore.
"Despite its harmful side effects, thalidomide is FDA-approved for two uses today—the treatment of inflammation associated with Hansen’s disease (leprosy) and as a chemotherapeutic agent for patients with multiple myeloma, purposes for which it was originally prescribed off-label."
https://helix.northwestern.edu/article/thalidomide-tragedy-lessons-drug-safety-and-regulation