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Alas, a lot of that supposed AZ stockpile traces back to the troubled Emergent Biosolutions facility. I don't think it had FDA certification when it produced th
by gojomo 6y ago
Alas, a lot of that supposed AZ stockpile traces back to the troubled Emergent Biosolutions facility. I don't think it had FDA certification when it produced them.
Exactly zero of the J&J doses from that facility have been given to Americans. 15M J&J doses were discarded because they were contaminated with AZ ingredients. Tens of millions more are currently in quarantine awaiting other evaluations & may never be used. The facility has halted production & there are some hints it may not restart.
Some of the AZ already sent to Canada was from that plant, made under conditions that that can now only be verified imperfectly in retrospect, based on the kind of incomplete records the company has been in trouble for.
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/more-than-half-canadas-astrazeneca-vaccine-came-from-u-s-plant-accused-by-fda-of-quality-control-problems https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/more-than-half-canadas-...
- unanswered 6y agoI think the consensus among the general public is all those doses you mentioned should be given anyways because the vaccine is 100% safe.
- arcticbull 6y agoThe vaccine when properly produced is incredibly safe - much safer than catching COVID, which is of course the cost of inaction.
- willmadden 6y agoYour statement is unverifiable. We need to focus on better testing. The case and death data itself is garbage because of the use of PCR tests with a too high cycle count. Also, the risk of antibody dependent enhancement is a potential disaster.
- unanswered 6y agoI think that's what I just said...
- setr 6y agoThose discarded vaccines are assumed to be improperly constructed, in which case they are not an actual instance of the vaccine (rather, something similar but not the same, and that difference is arbitrary and variable). That is, the vaccine name has been slapped on a box that offers no guarantees of containing that content.
- unanswered 6y agoThat sounds like antivaxx fear mongering to me TBH.
- setr 6y agoIt’s doing things like this that would increase trust in the system, not decrease it. You need to be able to trust your medicine has been produced correctly, because there’s no real way to verify it as a consumer (or as a doctor, or a pharmacist, or really anywhere after the fact). As soon as that trust is lost, the whole thing falls apart. You don’t take risks with medicine, because it’s already doing barely controlled, barely calculated shit to the body — that we only trust to do the job it says on the tin, because of the extensive and controlled tests. If those tests are no longer valid, because the medicine involved has qualities unknown (due to improper construction), anything goes.