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This same person says "the difference between doing things correctly and not doing things correctly is a matter of a few months". First, this is not a matter o

This same person says "the difference between doing things correctly and not doing things correctly is a matter of a few months". First, this is not a matter of "correct", it's a matter of "allowing people to voluntarily take additional risk on a vaccine similar to a phase III trial which we let people do already". Second, A "few months" is huge. Like a vaccine working a few months earlier would be the biggest global event of 2020. He must be in quite the nice position if the pandemic going an extra "few months" is no big deal.

gdubs 6y ago
Let’s say a vaccine is safe — you still have to know if it’s actually effective. That’s one of the things measured in these trials. We can’t just say, whoops, and mail a new dose to everyone. So, the risk isn’t just the safety. It’s about not squandering the precious resources that have been pulled together to manufacture distribute untold numbers of doses of a vaccine.