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I'm sorry I may be misinformed, I was under the belief that C19 was unlikely to be dangerous to children?

cempaka 3y ago
The CDC itself had language on their website to the effect that Covid posed less risk than influenza to young children. Pre 2020 freakout, would we ever have approved an influenza vaccine using a novel delivery method on the basis of less than two years of testing in humans, and less than one year in the young cohort? The FDA's "torpor" is easily overcome when incentives are aligned in that direction.
- bozhark 3y ago
  If enough people will die the FDA can’t really reason why it took so long to react.
  - cempaka 3y ago
    The FDA played a big role in the opioid crisis by permitting manufacturers to claim for years that the narcotics being prescribed were not habit forming. "Preventing deaths" is not necessarily the incentive they're responding to.
    - lillecarl 3y ago
      There's a dramatised version of this story on Disney+ called "Dopesick", it's very good, but not great PR for the US. There's also the movie "Dark Waters" about DuPont and Teflon if you want to trust your government even less.
    - ghufran_syed 3y ago
      The government, through JCAHO, also helped create the opioid crisis, with their push for the healthcare system to treat pain as the "fifth vital sign". Note that while JCAHO is supposedly a non-profit, JCAHO accreditation is a requirement for receiving medicare and medicaid funding from the government, which makes it a pretty big stick to beat the healthcare system with. Of course, now that large amounts of patient harm are recognized as a result, the regulators and bureaucrats are extremely quick to dodge any responsibility, summarized well here with quotes from various JCAHO publications in the past: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/
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The CDC itself had language on their website to the effect that Covid posed less risk than influenza to young children. Pre 2020 freakout, would we ever have approved an influenza vaccine using a novel delivery method on the basis of less than two years of testing in humans, and less than one year in the young cohort? The FDA's "torpor" is easily overcome when incentives are aligned in that direction.

bozhark 3y ago
If enough people will die the FDA can’t really reason why it took so long to react.
- cempaka 3y ago
  The FDA played a big role in the opioid crisis by permitting manufacturers to claim for years that the narcotics being prescribed were not habit forming. "Preventing deaths" is not necessarily the incentive they're responding to.
  - lillecarl 3y ago
    There's a dramatised version of this story on Disney+ called "Dopesick", it's very good, but not great PR for the US. There's also the movie "Dark Waters" about DuPont and Teflon if you want to trust your government even less.
  - ghufran_syed 3y ago
    The government, through JCAHO, also helped create the opioid crisis, with their push for the healthcare system to treat pain as the "fifth vital sign". Note that while JCAHO is supposedly a non-profit, JCAHO accreditation is a requirement for receiving medicare and medicaid funding from the government, which makes it a pretty big stick to beat the healthcare system with. Of course, now that large amounts of patient harm are recognized as a result, the regulators and bureaucrats are extremely quick to dodge any responsibility, summarized well here with quotes from various JCAHO publications in the past: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6139759/
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