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> In this context, if the FDA notices that there are not enough non-white people in the testing group, the FDA should not certify the vaccine for non-white peo

> In this context, if the FDA notices that there are not enough non-white people in the testing group, the FDA should not certify the vaccine for non-white people. The FDA does not certify vaccines as being safe for particular races, for one simple fact -- races are a social construct, not a biological reality. What we call "races" are actually mishmashes of a large variety of different ethnic groups, many of which have little to nothing in common with each other genetically. Vaccines are certified by age and by gender and that's it. There will never be a "whites-only" vaccine and the very idea is morally repugnant and biologically ridiculous.

IMTDb 6y ago
> races are a social construct, not a biological reality I do agree with you, but then what should anyone care about the distribution of ethnic groups in a medical trial if those ethnic groups have absolutely no impact on the result of the trial. Either it makes sense to differentiate the vaccine according to $variable and testing groups as well as certifications need to reflect that. Or it makes no biological sense to care about $variable, then we should have no requirements about making sure that $variable is correctly sampled in the test groups. In this case, ethnicity probably has 0 impact on the effectiveness of the vaccine, therefore why does anyone care about the distribution of ethnic groups in the sample ?