I have worked in the Biotech industry and worked with both the FDA and CDC.
The CDC and FDA have separate missions. The CDC tries to manage diseases once local authorities become overwhelmed. They maintain the Strategic National Stockpile. The SNS is a stockpile of different drugs, not enough for everyone, but enough to hopefully contain an outbreak. Our particular vaccine was FDA approved, and purchased for the SNS. The CDC also may purchase drugs that have not yet been FDA approved (depending on the political climate).
The FDA is the regulatory agency that polices, in this article's case, drugs. They monitor the clinical trials, and manufacturing process of the drugs (gmp-good manufacturing process). The FDA makes sure that drug companies do not exaggerate the efficacy of their products.
So it is not really that surprising that an agency that monitors and manages diseases would recommend drugs, while the agency that monitors and manages drugs would point to drug efficacy first.
The CDC and FDA have separate missions. The CDC tries to manage diseases once local authorities become overwhelmed. They maintain the Strategic National Stockpile. The SNS is a stockpile of different drugs, not enough for everyone, but enough to hopefully contain an outbreak. Our particular vaccine was FDA approved, and purchased for the SNS. The CDC also may purchase drugs that have not yet been FDA approved (depending on the political climate).
The FDA is the regulatory agency that polices, in this article's case, drugs. They monitor the clinical trials, and manufacturing process of the drugs (gmp-good manufacturing process). The FDA makes sure that drug companies do not exaggerate the efficacy of their products.
So it is not really that surprising that an agency that monitors and manages diseases would recommend drugs, while the agency that monitors and manages drugs would point to drug efficacy first.