Former FDA officials and medical experts criticize feds for politicizing COVID, misrepresenting evidence

"If the last administration did this, all experts would be outraged," tweeted University of California San Francisco medical professor Vinay Prasad.

The Biden administration is getting a pass for "extreme political pressure" that prompted outrage against its predecessor, two FDA alumni wrote in The Washington Post Thursday.

Former Office of Vaccines Research and Review Deputy Director Philip Krause and former acting Chief Scientist Luciana Borio protested three recent actions authorizing boosters for people as young as 16.

"Before last month, the standard practice was for the agencies to convene standing outside advisory committees, whose members inspect the relevant data, debate it and vote," they wrote. Earlier debates and votes suggest that "at least some experts would probably have voiced opposition," and the refusal to hear them out "could hurt the credibility of these agencies."

They criticized the FDA's "unpersuasive" explanation that authorizing boosters for 16- and 17-year-olds "does not raise questions that would benefit from additional discussion by committee members."

Exigency is "the exact circumstance when expert discussion and interpretation of the data can make the biggest difference," the duo wrote.

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