House speaker says UK system is ‘not on a par’ with US’s ‘very stringent rules’ about vaccines
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The speaker of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, has taken aim at the British vaccine testing safety regime as she warned UK approval of a vaccine would not automatically mean it was safe according to the US’s own procedures.
Amid a race to produce an effective vaccine against Covid-19 that meets broad international acceptance for safety, Pelosi’s comments appear partly motivated by concern that any quick and unilateral British approval of a vaccine might be embraced by Donald Trump for political gain, perhaps even ahead of the 3 November election.
