The Danish American who doubted Covid shots is meant to lead drug regulation – but has focused on vaccines
As the US continues making unprecedented changes to its vaccination recommendations, one figure appears unexpectedly: Tracy Beth Høeg, a Danish American sports physician and epidemiologist who first made her name casting doubt on Covid vaccines in the pandemic and has focused upon possible deaths after Covid vaccination in her short tenure at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Health officials planned to announce radical changes to the childhood vaccine schedule earlier this month, aligning the US with Denmark’s immunization schedule, sources say – a major change that would put the US out of step with much of the world with no evidence for benefit. The announcement has been postponed until the new year.
Instead of Vinay Prasad, the top vaccines chief, Høeg is listed to speak at the event. She was recently named acting director of the FDA’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER), the fifth person to lead the center this year.
Why do we allow single individuals to levy so much power in our regulatory bodies? Science doesn’t change very drastically on a 4 year basis, there’s absolutely no reason that a handful of dipshits should be able to rewrite this much public health policy.
Because when a lot of these departments were established it was advancing rapidly or were otherwise required to be able to rapidly move to counter rapidly evolving tech and economic systems. Problem is that stopped being true outside of specific tech fields about 40-50 years ago.
Also the individual is usually just chairing a board of experts and simply coordinating their work… not micromanaging the conclusions
That’s how it was when the administration was staffed with people who understood basic science