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And this comapny's particular approach to vaccination has never been approved for any indication. I can't imagine why this company would be considered a first-l
by lvs 7y ago
And this comapny's particular approach to vaccination has never been approved for any indication. I can't imagine why this company would be considered a first-line relative to classical approaches to vaccination (inactivated, attenuated live, made by recombinant hen egg, etc., etc.) that we roll out regularly and successfully.
- wbl 7y agoThey got the vaccine out for testing much faster. The technology was created for rapid response.
- lvs 7y agoI can produce placebo pills for you by tomorrow. Speed doesn't matter if it doesn't work.
- bluGill 7y agoAll approaches need to be considered at this time because we don't know which if any will work. We also don't know what the side effects of the ones that will work might be. When we get farther along in testing we will have more information and should re-evaluate. Maybe something will prove to work well (we can do a new flu shot in a few months because we have approved the process to create a new one), maybe everything else will fail. Maybe this will fail. We don't have enough useful information to work with now though.
- lvs 7y agoYou say these things like you know something about the field. In fact, we're talking about a technology for vaccination that is far less likely to work than many tried and true ones. It has never been FDA approved for anything.
- bluGill 7y agoThat doesn't mean that it won't work, or that the others will work. If the others turn out to work and because they are more tried in general great, but right now all approaches are worth exploring