#vinay — Public Fediverse posts

The Trump administration is considering #Houman #Hemmati, an ophthalmologist, entrepreneur and frequent Fox News guest,
to serve as the nation’s next top regulator of #vaccines and treatments for complex diseases

If selected, Hemmati would replace #Vinay #Prasad, who is slated to leave the high-ranking position at the Food and Drug Administration at the end of April
after a rocky year.

Prasad had overseen controversial decisions about drugs and a new plan to tighten vaccine approvals, which drew condemnation from former agency leaders.

Prasad was briefly forced out last summer after just three months on the job.
He was reinstated less than two weeks later with the help of vaccine critic Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and FDA Commissioner Marty Makary.

Hemmati, if given the job, would arrive amid scrutiny from the White House on FDA operations.

Concerns over the agency’s direction mounted late last year as leadership turned over,
rattling the drug industry,
which relies on a predictable FDA to understand what it needs to do to win approvals for new treatments.

Hemmati has served in various industry roles,
including top medical positions at Optigo Biotherapeutics,
which focuses on treatments for neovascular and degenerative retinal diseases,
and Vyluma, a company developing eye drops.

He has worked as an adjunct clinical assistant professor at USC’s Keck School of Medicine, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Hemmati’s outspoken skepticism of the federal government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic helped win him fans,
including Makary and then-Stanford professor Jay Bhattacharya
— who now hold senior roles in the Trump administration.

Hemmati, who has said he was forced to flee Iran with his family as a child, also has supported President Donald Trump’s efforts for regime change in the country, expressing support for the American military in a TV appearance last month and on social media.


In 2023, Hemmati questioned why the federal government should be paying for more coronavirus vaccines.

He praised a new approach to the coronavirus vaccine that Prasad outlined last year, which narrowed approval for updated shots to older adults and people with at least one health condition. -- In past years, shots had been broadly recommended, including to children and generally healthy adults

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.

The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.

Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from the FDA
that objected to how it conducted a 40,000-person clinical trial comparing its new vaccine to one of the standard flu shots used today.
That trial concluded the new vaccine was somewhat more effective in adults 50 and older than that standard shot.

The letter from FDA vaccine director Dr. #Vinay #Prasad said the agency doesn’t consider the application to contain an
“adequate and well-controlled trial”
because it didn’t compare the new shot to “the best-available standard of care in the United States at the time of the study.”
Prasad’s letter pointed to some advice FDA officials gave Moderna in 2024, under the Biden administration, which Moderna didn’t follow

According to Moderna, that feedback said it was acceptable to use the standard-dose flu shot the company had chosen
— but that another brand specifically recommended for seniors would be preferred for anyone 65 and older in the study.

Still, Moderna said, the FDA did agree to let the study proceed as originally planned

The company said it also had shared with FDA additional data from a separate trial
comparing the new vaccine against a licensed high-dose shot used for seniors.

The FDA “did not identify any safety or efficacy concerns with our product”
and “does not further our shared goal of enhancing America’s leadership in developing innovative medicines,”
Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel said in a statement.
https://apnews.com/article/moderna-vaccine-flu-mrna-2fc551cb2fb45735e67db0a4e2e2b0fb

This is all happening at a moment when political fortune has shifted greatly in a very short time.

#Robert #Kennedy #Jr. might be running the show soon.

He wrote a book titled "The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race".

According to it’s description on Amazon:

The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government’s increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency… The Wuhan Cover-Up unveils a global conspiracy of epic proportion and lethal consequence.

This stuff is mainstream.

Kennedy’s other book is called "The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health".
Though it is from 2021, it is currently an Amazon #1 bestseller with nearly 26,000 reviews.

David Burke wrote a meticulous rebuttal titled "In Defense of Fauci".
It has 1 review and is ranked #2,127,824 on the sales list.

Meanwhile, anti-vaxxers openly pine for Nuremberg trials
and headlines like this exist

- Anthony Fauci Says He Still Needs A Security Detail After Ron Desantis Threatened To ‘Grab That Little Elf And Chuck Him Across The Potomac’.

Powerful politicians made no secret of whom they blame and their desire for revenge.

#Elon #Musk even Tweeted,
“My pronouns are Prosecute/Fauci.”

#antivax
#Vinay #Prasad #Richard #Ebright #Bryce #Nickels

🆘 Mass purges and prosecutions of scientists have happened before.
We shouldn’t pretend they can’t happen now.

10,000 people should not lose their jobs because children wore masks at the start of the pandemic,
but the sad truth is, they might.

Consider Dr. Vinay Prasad:
“I Don’t Believe in Forgiveness Because in My Opinion These Pieces of Shit Are Still Lying.”

Although Dr. #Vinay #Prasad depicted himself as a sober medical scholar, his rageful comments are intentionally crafted to provoke his audience.

⚠️ His appeals to raw emotion were very effective. Here are some of the replies to Dr. Prasad’s post:

▪ Closing schools… injecting experimental products in children.. They need to be arrested first. Then, you can fire them.
▪ My presumption based on these agencies’ decisions so far is that they are filled top to bottom with politically possessed, self righteous, Quacks. I’d love at least 2/3 of them gone! I bet 90% of the real work is probably done by 10% of the employees there.
▪ Masking toddlers was state sanctioned child abuse. The risk benefit analysis is obvious risk, implausible benefit.
▪ Only 1/4?? I’d close the place down & rehire based on their progress during COVID..ie did they challenge/speak out, if so then yes you’re on track to having smart people in situ who also have integrity. You can’t put a price on that!
▪ I agree . . . we need a decisive leader at CDC who is willing to hold the institution, and its people, accountable for that colossal failure in judgment.
▪ Fire anyone who obscured the reality of Antigenic Sin, innate/adaptive immunity, risk stratification and mRNA safety signals. Reinstate everyone with backpay who were fired due to the unethical, unconstitutional injection mandate.
▪ I hope you can contribute in an official role to Make Science Great Again!

These spiteful calls for revenge were a normal, everyday occurrence on the social media feeds of "We Want Them Infected" doctors.
This is what they were aiming for. These people won’t cooperate when the next pandemic hits.
Dr. Prasad has traveled a long distance in a short time, though he is just one of many doctors calling for drastic actions against scientists.
Dr. #Richard #Ebright, a so-called “biosafety” advocate who teams up with anti-vaccine advocates of herd immunity through mass infection, is also calling for scientists to be jailed.
His partner Dr. #Bryce #Nickels hopes to enjoy the spectacle of even more Congressional investigations.
Dr. Ebright has testified there before. He is politically connected.
These hearings are highly problematic, as Dr. Allison Neitzel explained in her article Don’t Let House Republicans Rewrite Trump’s Pandemic History.

https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/lying/