CORONAVIRUS/SCOTT GOTTLIEB/TRUMP ADMIN/VACCINES: “Former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Scott Gottlieb, now on the board of Pfizer, said that the United States was offered more of the company’s successful coronavirus vaccine as recently as November — but didn’t take the deal…
Gottlieb, who was Trump’s FDA chief until April 2019, noted that the U.S. government said that the conversations with Pfizer happened in July, but that there was an offer for more vaccines on the table as recently as last month.
Gottlieb said other countries ended up taking those vaccines after the U.S. passed.”
-Aidan McLaughlin, “Former FDA Director Scott Gottlieb: Trump Administration Declined More Pfizer Vaccines as Recently as November,” www.mediaite.com, Dec. 14, 2020