A top virologist and FDA Advisory Panel member who supported granting the experimental COVID-19 shot emergency use authorization has died suddenly.
Dr. Almyra “A” Oveta Fuller, 67, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology and member of the FDA vaccine and biological products advisory committee, died suddenly on Friday morning.
According to her obituary, Fuller died on November 18, 2022, after a brief non-COVID-related illness.
From The Tennessee Tribune:
Dr. Fuller most recently served on the Vaccine and Biological Products Advisory Committee of the Food and Drug Administration whose most recent work was the emergency release of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Fuller was an ordained itinerant elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church in the Michigan Annual Conference and served as an adjunct faculty member at Payne Theological Seminary. She also served for several…