Republicans Ratchet Up Attacks On US FDA’s COVID Response

Pair of letters that target research focus and therapeutic review speed is a potential preview of the kind of oversight that the agency may be subject to if the GOP retakes control of the House this fall.

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House Republicans are using the one-year anniversary of President Biden’s inauguration to launch a fresh round of attacks on the US Food and Administration, offering a preview of some of the campaign rhetoric the agency might expect to hear ahead of the midterms in November as well as a taste for the kind of oversight the agency may receive if the GOP retakes the House in the elections.

In separate letters sent on 19 January, Republicans on the Energy & Commerce and the Oversight & Reform committees asked...

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