STAT+: El-Sayed claps back at RFK Jr., and FDA’s ‘enforcement discretion’ on peptides

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El-Sayed’s clapback

Abdul El-Sayed is the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan. He’s also “a second-generation immigrant, a federally funded health equity researcher, a former local public health director, and an evangelist for single-payer health care,” according to Anil Oza’s profile.

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