> The thalidomide scandal may have led to 10,000 miscarriages So, over an entire century, the worse drug approval mistake caused fewer birth defects than the n

> The thalidomide scandal may have led to 10,000 miscarriages So, over an entire century, the worse drug approval mistake caused fewer birth defects than the number of Covid per day. Deaths that at this point could be easily prevented by faster vaccine approval. What rational person could possibly look at that state of affairs and not conclude that our drug approval process is trading off far too many type II errors relative to type I errors.