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I am blown away at how quickly the world/science/this company produced this. Clearly this is not the end of it but this is something positive.
by tonetheman 6y ago
I am blown away at how quickly the world/science/this company produced this. Clearly this is not the end of it but this is something positive.
- Cthulhu_ 6y agoThey produced it within months; it's the clinical trials to prove its efficiency and safety that took a while. I wonder if this experience has led to developments to speed up the development process (without compromising on safety); I hope so, because this is not the first and will not be the last time we see a worldwide pandemic like this.
- m12k 6y agoI'm not sure it's fully possible to not compromise on safety one way or another when doing something like this quickly. Let's say a side effect is that 1% of women become sterile half a year after getting the vaccine - how would we possibly know that after testing for 3 months? All we can do is say it's very unlikely based on other vaccines with similar approaches, and monitor for effects on the reproductive system (or anything else unusual in the body) that is know to potentially lead to something like that down the line. In the end, we can (and probably must) decide that taking the time to disprove there being any long term negative effects, is more likely to cause more harm (because more covid-infections will happen in the meantime) than the good it is likely to do us. But it is still a higher risk than the usual approach where we test for longer.