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> Why would the companies producing the vaccine have a say in this.. Because, if I am not mistaken, these studies are funded by the companies themselves.
by spadez 5y ago
> Why would the companies producing the vaccine have a say in this..
Because, if I am not mistaken, these studies are funded by the companies themselves.
- throwaway4good 5y agoSure but they do them because they are required by law to do so.
- spadez 5y agoSure, that is what I meant, they are required by law to show the benefit of the drug once. So its really upto them if they want to do another trial, right? At least as per current law..
- throwaway4good 5y agoAnyway. The public is paying for this in the end. If there is genuine suspicion that these efficacy numbers no longer hold, we should just sponsor a test of it. Otherwise we base our decisions on what to buy and how to roll it out on wrong data.