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This is a approval for all of the people who said to just allow Hydrochloriquine for everyone, because after all, its a pandemic, and how bad can it be? (turns
by InTheArena 6y ago
This is a approval for all of the people who said to just allow Hydrochloriquine for everyone, because after all, its a pandemic, and how bad can it be? (turns out, it gave people heart attacks).
Not only have AZ lied about their test plans (claiming that the two differing dose was deliberate in the first press releases), lied about who was at fault with dosing errors (they insisted that the Italians where at fault), "pooled" results with different populations to try and make a argument they were not testing for (which critically didn't include people over 55) - they just managed to get the UK to approve a dosing strategy that they never even tested.
It's a pandemic - and the UK has invested a lot in both loves and national prestige in this vaccine. But the shortcuts here may come back to haunt. Or it may be what stops this disease in it's tracks.
it's a hell of a gamble either way..
- standardUser 6y agoCounterpoint, it's been proven safe based on all available data (which is more than for any other vaccine) and it reliably prevents serious illness even if it doesn't prevent all infections as reliably as the mRNA vaccines. If we want the best possible vaccine, wait 6 months. If we want a safe vaccine that can end the pandemic as quickly as possible, this is the vaccine for the job.
- InTheArena 6y agoExcept none of that data is actually public yet - and a ton of work is going to have to go into bias-work because of the half-assed pooling work that AZ did.