Tue Feb 21, 2023 – 6:15 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) – Dr. Robert Califf, the commissioner of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA), blamed “misinformation” for continuing COVID-19 deaths, asserting his agency as an antidote despite the federal public health bureaucracy’s history of perpetuating rather than correcting medical falsehoods.
“Almost no one should be dying of COVID in the U.S. today,” Califf told the Associated Press in comments published Tuesday. “People who are denying themselves that opportunity are dying because they’re misinformed.”
“The FDA’s word is still one of the most highly regarded pieces of information people want to see,” Califf claimed, detailing the agency’s efforts to dispute claims that conflict with the FDA’s own via YouTube videos, Twitter threads, website articles, and even Instagram memes consisting of captioned screenshots from cartoons such as Scooby-Doo and SpongeBob SquarePants.
Yet many argue that the federal government generally, and the FDA specifically, are far from trustworthy when it comes to COVID-19.
Last year, former FDA adviser David Gortler accused the agency of “purposely hiding facts” about “both safety and efficacy problems with vaccines and boosters” for the virus, particularly regarding links to heart issues such as myocarditis.
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