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While the specific percentages in this meme are not accurate, still lol. There is a lot of truth to that when we have a high risk vaccine that didnt go through the usual safety checks being pushed on the public.
@freemo How so? They all have gone all 3 phases of testing. I've read that 90% of the time is usually wasted on trying to get funding, which at this moment is naturally hardly a problem.
@trinsec No they havent. One has completely skipped the animal testing phase (the others did not skip however) and every single one of them significantly cut down the required time in each phase, by passing the usual (and very critical) ong term studies needed.
No this is typically unrelated to funding, most vaccines are developed in house at huge pharmaceutical companies, they are more than capable of funding their own projects typically.
In fact the process cut out such a huge swatch of the normally required time for each phase that it required emergency status from the president to make it legal at all.
@trinsec lightly is a bit of a loaded term... they skipped studies that often catch complications that would have resulted in many perminantly injured or dead, we have those safety measures in place for a reason.
We aso know fromt he past that when we start skipping steps on vaccines, people die, lots of them... we might get lucky here sure, but it is wreckless and stupid and the result of fear mongering that has been amplified throughout the course of the virus (not to say it isnt a serious virus, but it has been used as a point of fear regardless).
ADE is by far the biggest risk factor and the one most scientists keep warning us about and have continually asked the FDE to not skip safety steps for fear of ADE.. ADE is most often detected from the long term studies and if it does crop up can turn a vaccine that appears safe in short term studies into a mass-killer long term.
ADE is a documented effect (and the reason for several vaccines to be rejected) whereby a vaccine causes immunity in the short term but causes an amplified effect in long-term exposure so that people exposed to the virus 9 months, a year, or sometimes more into the future wind up have extremely severe reactions to the virus (often leading to death).
There is nothing the FDA could do to avoid this other than the proper long term studies... there is no replacement or way to speed up proper drug safety, especially not with vaccines.
@freemo But I'd think that big organisations that checks the process aren't just going over this lightly? The EMA in Europe and FDA in USA?