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> Moving on, Dr. Fauci said the pre-enrollment for Moderna’s final clinical trial for a possible COVID-19 vaccine includes 19% black and 19% hispanic participan
by BoiledCabbage 6y ago
> Moving on, Dr. Fauci said the pre-enrollment for Moderna’s final clinical trial for a possible COVID-19 vaccine includes 19% black and 19% hispanic participants across 89 sites throughout the country.
> "Now we want to get that and even more” because of how the virus has disproportionately affected minority communities with worse outcomes and higher death rates, Dr. Fauci said.
> So now clinical trials are potentially being delayed so scientists can pander to the equality warriors: because shouldn't these vaccines work the same regardless of race?
What's the charitable reading of this? The author fundamentally doesn't understand the purpose of a vaccine trial? Because he thinks the vaccine will work equivalently for all races they should just skip testing that part? That selecting the population is any remotely significant portion of the vaccine trial time?
The testing of the vaccine should be similar to the overall population impacted from the virus. The virus is impacting X population breakdown, so make sure they are represented in the vaccine trial.
If instead they selected only people who attended a near by Historically Black College or University, and the test population was 100% Black, that he'd have no issue with that? It's beyond absurd.
It seems like some people are so wrapped up in their views, than anything that looks like equitable treatment and has something to do with race they get upset over.
It's really hard to take anything else he writes seriously, if he has issues having a sampled test population reflect the overall impacted population.