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Vinay Prasad, the FDA Director of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, has been critical of the Covid vaccine, to put it lightly. Not only that, he has a history of minimizing mask wearing, an effective tool in limiting the spread of infectious diseases. He also compared Covid public health measures to Nazi Germany.

Prasad was temporarily ousted from his position in July following a social media push from Laura Loomer, but was back before mid-August. In May, Prasad and FDA Commissioner Martin A. Makary wrote a piece in the New England Journal of Medicine

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