FILE - Dr. Stephen Hahn, Commissioner Of Food And Drugs, United States Food and Drug Administration testifies during a US Senate Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee hearing on September 23, 2020. (ALEX EDELMAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images)WASHINGTON - The head of the agency responsible for authorizing COVID-19 vaccines said Tuesday after a meeting at the White House that federal officials would take the time needed to “get this right,” despite increasing pressure and growing frustration from President Donald Trump that approval is taking too long.“No one at FDA is sitting on his or her hands.
Everyone is working really hard to look at these applications and get this done,” Stephen Hahn, the head of the Food and Drug.