Write a paper about the FDAs role in the COVID Pandemic. Minimum 6 pages, excluding title page and references. Arial font, size 12, single spaced, standard 1 inch margins top, bottom, left, right. See technical specs below.
Take into account:
Context
The FDAs historical role as regulator of medications and vaccines.
Current Environment
FDAs powers and limits concerning the availability of meds and vaccines.
What needed to be done, what could be done, vs what could have been done?
How could/did FDA assist/expedite/facilitate/limit/impede a drug related solution(s).
Critical Thinking
Errors and/or Possibilities for improvement in FDA roles as facilitator or obstructor of drug related solutions to a national health crisis.
Was the FDA Efficient? Effective? Responsive? Politically impaired, motivated or isolated? Were the bureaucratic structures conducive to, or in the way of, accomplishing the mission in a fast, safe and effective way?
