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FDA is departing from long-standing procedures to deal with public health crises, and this may foreshadow problems for COVID-19 vaccines

  • Written by Ana Santos Rutschman, Assistant Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
imageFDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn, right, and President Trump at a Coronavirus Task Force meeting March 19, 2020.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

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