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The Latest: Warp Speed leader decries pressure put on FDA

by The Associated Press
| December 13, 2020 8:03 AM

WASHINGTON — Moncef Slaoui, the chief scientist leading the White House’s Operation Warp Speed, said President Donald Trump’s public pressuring of the Food and Drug Administration commissioner last week to quickly approve the coronavirus vaccine was not helpful for building public confidence in the inoculation campaign.

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