COVID-19 - The US Food and Drug Administration is getting political heat to approve vaccines prior to the US election.
Bloomberg report firms are planning to band together to issue a pledge to not send any Covid-19 vaccine to the FDA for review without extensive safety and efficacy data
- Bloomberg citing unnamed people familiar with the effort, saying firms Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson, GlaxoSmithKline, Sanofi and possibly others (all of these are developing vaccines for Covid-19)
Pfizer, Moderna, Sanofi and others are involved - likely to be announced in a multi-company statement as soon as next week