Amid vaccine trials, the FDA is on trial itself

This week, the public health community was shocked by another possibly politically driven flip-flop on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) website as, just days after posting it, the agency withdrew widely supported recommendations regarding aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 beyond the standard six-foot social distance range.

By contrast, in a Wall Street Journal column this weekend entitled “You can trust the FDA’s vaccine process,” two highly respected former Food and Drug Administration commissioners...