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FDA is a TOTALLY CAPTURED regulatory agency. Don't expect too much from them.

Pfizer would be displeased if a generic drug, metformin, were placed on an equal footing with their cash cow Paxlovid. Pfizer pays prescription drug user fees (PDUFA) and FDA is keenly aware who is polishing their apple.

Consider the FDA approval of the now abandoned Alzheimer's Drug Aduhelm. The FDA External Expert Panel was nearly unanimous that this drug should not be approved. FDA approved it.

Big Daddy Pharma was undoubtedly pleased with this FDA decision.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/health/alzheimers-drug-aduhelm-fda.html

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Wow! Thanks for sharing that.

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Just one example of others could site. It's a long list.

On a not necessarily related topic, one might ask 'How is the latest XBB 1.5 SARS-CoV-2 booster working out?'

"Compared to 0 or 1 prior vaccine doses, risk of COVID-19 was incrementally higher with 2 prior doses"

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.04.27.24306378v1

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