Janet Woodcock

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Person.png Janet Woodcock  Rdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(civil servant, health bureaucrat, Big pharma/Lobbyist)
Janet Woodcock.jpg
BornAugust 29, 1948
NationalityUS
Alma materBucknell University, Northwestern University
SpouseRoger Miller
Member ofOperation Warp Speed
Big Pharma civil servant responsible for the approval of opioid drugs fetanyl and OxyContin creating the United States opioid epidemic. In August 2021, responsible for giving permanent US approval of COVID-19 vaccines.

Employment.png Commissioner of Food and Drugs

In office
January 20, 2021 - Present
Acting

Janet Woodcock is a US civil servant working in the health administration.

As head of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, the FDA department responsible for approving new prescription opioids, she “consistently put the interests of opioid manufacturers ahead of public health, often overruling its own scientific advisors and ignoring the pleas of public health groups, state Attorneys General, and outraged victims of the opioid crisis”.[1]

In August 2021, it was reported she as acting head of the Food and Drug Administration, will give the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, so far administered under emergency use authorization, a permanent approval, making the push for mandatory vaccinations far more intensive.[2] She will not be nominated permanent head of the Food and Drug Administration.[3]


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