>> no, it's really important,
chris, the fact that the fda's
advisory committee, the vaccine
and related biological products
advisory committee, the one that
met today and voted to recommend
to the fda to grant the eua,
that's really important, chris,
because what it shows is that
the process we have here in the
united states is decisions and
recommendations are made by
independent bodies just the way
the data and safety monitoring
board looked at the data a while
ago and said it looks good,
let's examine the data and see
if we can get an eua.
the advisory committee to the
fda now has made that
recommendation.
the reason i think this is so
important is that we want to
make sure that we impress the
american public that decisions
that involve their health and
safety are made outside of the
realm of politics, outside of
the realm of self-aggrandizement
and are made in essence by
independent groups.
so it was a very important step