Trump Calls on Pharmaceutical Companies to ‘Justify Success’ of COVID-19 Vaccines

President Donald Trump on Sept. 1 said that pharmaceutical companies, including Pfizer, should make public information they’ve shared with him about their COVID-19 products. “It is very important that the Drug Companies justify the success of their various Covid Drugs,” the president said in a post on Truth Social. Trump said Pfizer and other companies have shown him information “that is extraordinary, but they never seem to show those results to the public.” The president then linked what he said was the lack of public information to the turmoil at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, whose director he recently fired. After the termination, several top officials resigned, in part because they opposed how the CDC, under orders from Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., earlier this year stopped recommending COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children and pregnant women....