If there were sane people handling vaccine approvals at FDA, the mRNA shots would never have been allowed to be called vaccines. The foxes were guarding the henhouse on that issue and many others, leading to the royalty windfalls for Fauci and others. By letting experimental gene expression vectors and poorly characterized lipid particle delivery systems slide by like they were the same as traditional vaccines, they avoided generating ADME and safety data they couldn't ignore or later claim ignorance of. I find it hard to believe someone at NIH wouldn't realize how a new drug class should be handled, so I have to assume they turned a blind to get their fat checks and time in front of cameras playing doctor.