BIO 2020 Notebook: FDA's Hahn On COVID-19 Lessons To Be Learned; NIH's Fauci On Health Care Disparities; Pfizer's Young On Forgoing Gov't Vaccine Funds

News and views from day three of BIO Digital. US FDA Commissioner Hahn asks industry to help identify best regulatory lessons from the pandemic; Pfizer’s chief business officer explains how need to move quickly in vaccine partnership with BioNTech led to decision to forgo US funding.

BIO 2020 Notebook
Fixing disparities in health care status and access to care could take "decades" of work, NIAID's Fauci says. • Source: Shutterstock

US Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Stephen Hahn wants industry help in determining the best regulatory lessons learned from the coronavirus pandemic.

During a 10 June fireside chat at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization’s virtual international convention, Hahn indicated that the agency already has started its “after-action review” of the coronavirus pandemic response,...

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