U.S. President Donald Trump within the Cabinet Room of the White House on Aug. 26, 2025 in Washington, D.C.
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President Donald Trump on Monday referred to as on pharmaceutical corporations to “justify the success” of their Covid medication days after the Food and Drug Administration set new limits on who can obtain vaccines for the virus.
“It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs. Many people think they are a miracle that saved Millions of lives. Others disagree!” Trump wrote in a Truth Social put up.
The FDA on Wednesday accredited the newest spherical of Covid vaccines, however just for folks at larger threat of extreme sickness.
The president’s feedback additionally come days after he fired Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Susan Monarez after she refused to resign. Four different prime well being officers on the CDC additionally introduced they had been quitting the company final week, together with Demetre Daskalakis, director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
“With CDC being ripped aside over this query, I would like the reply, and I would like it NOW,” Trump mentioned within the put up. “I’ve been proven info from Pfizer, and others, that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public. Why not???”
The management upheaval on the CDC follows a sequence of measures by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to overtake federal well being companies and alter U.S. immunization insurance policies. He has instituted mass firings, gutted a key authorities vaccine panel and canceled research on mRNA shot technology.
In his social media put up, Trump urged drug corporations to be extra clear about their outcomes to “clear up this MESS.”