The COVID-19 pandemic has drawn an unusual level of public attention to the daily work processes and operations of the US Food and Drug Administration. But much of the work being spotlighted wasn’t “business as usual.” The agency has worked overtime and used flexibilities afforded it due to the nature of the global public emergency to get experimental products to Americans at record speed – most notably through the emergency use authorization pathway.
Pandemic Perspectives: How COVID Emergency Use Authorizations Could Reshape US FDA
From re-examining the FDA’s place in the broader US government to how fast and flexible it can be clearing therapies in non-emergency times, the COVID-19 EUA experience is expected to have a long-lasting impact on the agency.
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