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Robin Hanson has been covering variolation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/variolation-test-design.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/variolation
by jseliger 7y ago
Robin Hanson has been covering variolation: http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/variolation-test-design.html http://www.overcomingbias.com/2020/04/variolation-test-desig... and part of the issue is that the FDA is poorly equipped and set up to respond to a pandemic. One obvious solution is to cut through the bureaucracy and make emergency exceptions, but no one with political power in the US seems to know this, or understand it.
- danieltillett 7y agoUltimately a decision to use or not use any attenuated strain found will be a political decision.
- mattchew 7y agoThere's a lot of differences in risk appetite (and actual risk) from state to state. Maybe the feds could allow states to get a waiver from FDA regulations if they want to try things like variolation. This would still require someone at the federal level to stick their neck out a little, but (I think) a lot less than if they were to propose something like this as a federal policy. We've got a federal system, let's make some use of it.