FDA Rehires Vax Chief Ousted Following Clash With Loomer
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FDA Rehires Vax Chief Ousted Following Clash With Loomer
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> The Food and Drug Administration has rehired the vaccine chief who resigned just two weeks ago.
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> Dr. Vinay Prasad led the FDA’s vaccines and gene therapy division until he was forced to resign in late July after a public pressure campaign led by far-right activist Laura Loomer. The vocal Trump supporter and ally accused Prasad of “infiltrating” the FDA’s leadership and ”sabotaging” Trump’s agenda.
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> Dr. Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist at UC San Francisco, gained prominence during the pandemic as an outspoken critic of COVID-19 vaccines and mask mandates.
Loony Loomer shouldn’t have that much power anyway, she’s bat crap crazy.
Google “alpha gal”, notice the articles just updated a few days ago. They have another demic being planned.
[Top vaccine regulator returns to FDA after recent firing](https://www.politico.com/news/2025/08/09/prasad-returns-to-fda-as-top-vaccine-regulator-00501342)
> Dr. Vinay Prasad is back at the FDA less than two weeks after the White House pressed the head of the agency to remove him from his multiple agency leadership roles, an HHS spokesperson said Saturday.
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> After Commissioner Marty Makary requested the return of Prasad to his job regulating biologics and vaccines, the White House decided the agency could bring him back after reviewing Prasad’s past remarks highlighted by right-wing provocateur Laura Loomer last month, according to a person familiar with the decision granted anonymity to discuss the decision.
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> “At the FDA’s request, Dr. Vinay Prasad is resuming leadership of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research,” HHS spokesperson Andrew Nixon said. HHS declined to answer additional que