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stricter guidelines that the agency was preparing for the emergency authorization of coronavirus vaccines.
“Why would we do that?” he asked Margaret Brennan on the CBS program “Face the Nation” on Sunday.
Mr. Meadows said he was interested in the guidelines purely as a matter of quality control: “My challenge to the F.D.A. is just make sure it’s based on science and real numbers.”