Deaths from COVID aren't seen as the direct 'fault' of the regulatory bodies. Deaths from a vaccine will be... and fundamentally, regulatory bodies aren't real

Deaths from COVID aren't seen as the direct 'fault' of the regulatory bodies. Deaths from a vaccine will be... and fundamentally, regulatory bodies aren't really incentivised to take risks anyway. If they follow your line of thinking and it's all fine... no-one's going to be writing articles praising them. If they follow your line of thinking and more people die form blood clots... people will write articles attacking them. Questions will be asked, and careers may be harmed. Etc.