One of the main, if not the main, takeaway from last week’s House Judiciary Committee hearing on the licensure of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine appears to be that FDA official Marion Gruber, who was at the time the Director of the FDA’s Office for Vaccines Research and Review, opposed the fast-track licensing of the vaccine. According to the standard spin, Gruber and her deputy Phillip Krause would even resign from the agency in protest. But what has gone virtually entirely overlooked in the related buzz about Gruber’s and Krause’s alleged opposition, is that Marion Gruber herself signed the letter approving the vaccine and granting full authorisation.
She only resigned after authorising. In fact, she did not resign. She retired, having reached the eligible retirement age the year before.
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