FDA Shake-Up: Makary on Vaccines, Food & COVID Accountability — PBD Podcast
Update: 2025-11-25
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A blistering call for transparency: FDA Commissioner Marty Makary lays out how the agency will rebuild trust, speed cures, and fix the food supply. (Original: 2 hours → Summary: 6 minutes.)
In this condensed conversation with host Patrick Bet-David, Dr. Makary explains three priorities—food safety and nutrition, faster approval for transformative therapies, and restoring public confidence in public health institutions. Learn what the FDA’s removal of artificial dyes signals, why he pushes for a full accounting of COVID‑19 origins and policy missteps, how he frames vaccine benefits and rare harms, and why acetaminophen, puberty timing, drug pricing, and synthetic opioids all matter to public health. Practical takeaways include anticipated regulatory changes, the agency’s new tone of transparency, and where Congress needs to act on patents and generics. Keywords: FDA, vaccines, COVID-19, public health, food policy, drug pricing, autism. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
In this condensed conversation with host Patrick Bet-David, Dr. Makary explains three priorities—food safety and nutrition, faster approval for transformative therapies, and restoring public confidence in public health institutions. Learn what the FDA’s removal of artificial dyes signals, why he pushes for a full accounting of COVID‑19 origins and policy missteps, how he frames vaccine benefits and rare harms, and why acetaminophen, puberty timing, drug pricing, and synthetic opioids all matter to public health. Practical takeaways include anticipated regulatory changes, the agency’s new tone of transparency, and where Congress needs to act on patents and generics. Keywords: FDA, vaccines, COVID-19, public health, food policy, drug pricing, autism. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.
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