Pharma promises lawmakers, again and again, industry won’t cut corners with Covid-19 vaccines

The pharmaceutical industry does not want you to worry about the safety or efficacy of a future Covid-19 vaccine.

Officials from five major vaccine makers — AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Moderna, and Pfizer — all used their testimony before a House investigative subcommittee on Tuesday to push back on concerns that the Food and Drug Administration might prematurely approve a vaccine for the novel coronavirus and thereby put Americans at risk.