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originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
Those who have claimed emergency authorisations as proving safety and effectiveness have had their arguments refuted.
I don't recall anyone making that argument, so that is a moot point.
You are battling windmills.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Asmodeus3
But that wasn't the point being made, what was said was that phase 3 can be short and long term effects are not known until after things are made publically available. You even said you agree.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Would you have taken it if you knew that the trial before the rollout showed 1 in 800 serious adverse events?
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
a reply to: daskakik
Would you have taken it if you knew that the trial before the rollout showed 1 in 800 serious adverse events?
A regional director who was employed at the research organisation Ventavia Research Group has told The BMJ that the company falsified data, unblinded patients, employed inadequately trained vaccinators, and was slow to follow up on adverse events reported in Pfizer’s pivotal phase III trial.
originally posted by: daskakik
a reply to: Asmodeus3
Actually you can, that was the point.
Obviously they did and the EUAs just make it a bit easier.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Would you have taken it if you knew that the trial before the rollout showed 1 in 800 serious adverse events?
I'd take it now, if I felt there was a benefit, because I don't share the clinical picture of the people that resulted in those numbers.
originally posted by: Itisnowagain
Don't you feel there's a benefit now?
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
There is no such thing as accelerated clinical phase trials.
Nobody can conclude if the product is safe and effective in a year or so. If you don't know the short, medium, and long term effects,
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
There is no such thing as accelerated clinical phase trials.
Nobody can conclude if the product is safe and effective in a year or so. If you don't know the short, medium, and long term effects,
You can keep saying this and still be incorrect. Phase 3 trials is 300+ people for about 1 to 4 years, and most are closer to 1 than 4, so how do you get med long-range information from that? If they are using about 1000 people, how do you get much of anything outside of issues that may impact larger percentages of the people using it. Anything that hits a smaller percentage is typically not found until Phase 4 when they monitor the use of the drug within the general population. This is where they can have any size they want and monitor for many years.
This is how all drugs are done all over the world. Your idea there is some massive testing for many years once they get to Phase 3 is just not there and that level of observations can only happen once the drug is actually being sold to the public. Hell EU is even quicker than our FDA.
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
Do you go and hope that it will have much less serious adverse reactions in the real world??!!
originally posted by: v1rtu0s0
Yep, it normally takes 10 years for a "vaccine" to make it to market, but 1 year is normal. Right.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: McGinty
originally posted by: chr0naut
There are numerous far more deadly causes of death (and probably preventable, too, if there was sufficient political will to stop these deaths) that are tolerated in the US.
How many die in traffic accidents?
How many die from misuse of firearms?
How many die from crime?
How many die from poisonings and overdoses?
How many die from simply taking stupid risks?
How many die from cancers caused by exposure to environmental carcinogens (because alternative chemicals are too expensive).
So if more people die in traffic accidents than from falling from a building, is it then safer to fall from a building?
These are both highly likely causes of death. Safety comes from reducing the overall risk of death...
originally posted by: daskakik
I just noticed that this "it takes 10 years" claim thrown around is the same one used by some people, who they would probably consider big pharma apologists, for the high prices of medications.
Guess politics isn't the only thing that makes for strange bedfellows.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Asmodeus3
There is no such thing as accelerated clinical phase trials.
Nobody can conclude if the product is safe and effective in a year or so. If you don't know the short, medium, and long term effects,
You can keep saying this and still be incorrect. Phase 3 trials is 300+ people for about 1 to 4 years, and most are closer to 1 than 4, so how do you get med long-range information from that? If they are using about 1000 people, how do you get much of anything outside of issues that may impact larger percentages of the people using it. Anything that hits a smaller percentage is typically not found until Phase 4 when they monitor the use of the drug within the general population. This is where they can have any size they want and monitor for many years.
This is how all drugs are done all over the world. Your idea there is some massive testing for many years once they get to Phase 3 is just not there and that level of observations can only happen once the drug is actually being sold to the public. Hell EU is even quicker than our FDA.
originally posted by: McGinty
Like not having an experimental genetic vaccine?
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: McGinty
Indeed! But it's still a wacky logic to say you should risk something just because there are other risks in life. Best to measure things on their own merits imo
I been a pilot for 40+ years and every flight we did a risk assessment work sheet to compare the risk to the need of the flight, or in generic terms the reward. I have done this so much that it is imbedded in me in everything I do, so it's a part of my life.