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> The billions of people who have gotten Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines show how safe they are, those experts say. I don't like that "testing in pro
by RichardCNormos 4y ago
> The billions of people who have gotten Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccines show how safe they are, those experts say.
I don't like that "testing in production" is now a norm in healthcare.
- NoahKAndrews 4y agoThere were trials before they started giving them to the public.
- _-david-_ 4y agoThey never finished all the phases of the trials.
- edmundsauto 4y agoIt looks more like "an acceptable tradeoff in emergent crises" than a norm. It's possible that it becomes more common, but this might mean shorter time to market for some products. It's possible we had overindexed on caution and this is a reasonable correction.
- RichardCNormos 4y agoIt will absolutely become more common. Launching a PR campaign to convince the public that a given disease is an "emergency" can save billions by side-stepping expensive clinical trials. With the relatively low deadliness-to-panic ratio of COVID, the pharma industry now knows that this is possible.