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I think your position, and that of the FDA is based on emotion, and not any logical reasoning. The Thalidomide crisis cased a few thousand issues. The risk-be
by mchusma 6y ago
I think your position, and that of the FDA is based on emotion, and not any logical reasoning.
The Thalidomide crisis cased a few thousand issues.
The risk-benefit analysis clearly favored lifting the ban on COVID vaccines after successful phase 1 trials, in June 2020 or so. They decided they should be banned until further study, during a pandemic.
The FDA was empowered explicitly by congress to take more aggressive action during such a time. They opted instead to ignore that mandate, and instead run things like normal, albeit with taking reasonable time to respond to a crisis. The deaths of 100,000 to 400,000 could be directly blamed on the simple fact that for most of this crisis, we had not 1 but approximately 8 vaccines that were all expected to be safe and work, and all turned out to be safe and to work. Vaccines candidates are not like Thalidomide, period.
It's important for citizens to publically shame the FDA for their actions, and demand change from our elected officials.
- mattkrause 6y agoIt’s simply not true that all of the candidate vaccines worked. - The Sanofi-GSK one produced meh immune responses in the elderly, which is the population most at risk. (https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sanofi-gsk-vaccine-covid19-trial-1.5837249 https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/sanofi-gsk-vaccine-covid19-tr...) - Merck/MSD abandoned TWO candidates, V590 and V591. https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of-sars-cov-2-covid-19-vaccine-candidates-continues-development-of-two-investigational-therapeutic-candidates/ https://www.merck.com/news/merck-discontinues-development-of... - CSL/Queensland abandoned theirs because it interfered with HIV tests. https://www.csl.com/news/2020/20201211-update-on-the-university-of-queensland-covid-19-vaccine https://www.csl.com/news/2020/20201211-update-on-the-univers...