Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
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Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#2"82% of Democrats and 72% of Republicans expressed concern that the Covid-19 vaccine approval process would be driven more by politics than by science.
More than 80% of independents, Republicans, and Democrats said they would worry about the safety of a vaccine that was approved quickly."
Wow.
And lest you think this is a Trump thing, the figures are similar in European countries.
A bad COVID vaccine (one that doesn't work), or heaven help us, one that causes harm, could set public healthcare back decades.
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#3"Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, hinted that she would not take a Covid-19 vaccine if one were approved and distributed before the election.
“I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said in a CNN interview. “I will not take his word for it.”"
Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is? It must be her infinite knowledge and experience as a trained virologist...
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#4"Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, hinted that she would not take a Covid-19 vaccine if one were approved and distributed before the election. “I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said in a CNN interview. “I will not take his word for it.”" Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is? It must be her infinite knowledge and experience as a train…
It sounds like her opinion is that she will defer to trained virologists.
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#5What’s the timeline for Phase III trials? The article doesn’t seem to say. I don’t feel reassured that those won’t be rushed.
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#6Without fast track approval, in the best case scenario, approximately how long would it take for any of these vaccine candidates to go through phase 3 trials?
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#7Seems like a smart decision by those businesses to team up (collude?) here both for business and public health reasons. If they all agree to wait post election there will be a higher rate of vaccinations which will benefit everyone (sales and progress towards herd immunity). I'm not sure if this would put them into any odd legal situations for playing politics.
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#8"Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, hinted that she would not take a Covid-19 vaccine if one were approved and distributed before the election. “I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said in a CNN interview. “I will not take his word for it.”" Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is? It must be her infinite knowledge and experience as a train…
It sounds like her opinion is that she will defer to trained virologists.
That's completely beside the point. What I asked is, why should I care what her opinion on the mater is? Why was this quote included in this article? Also it doesn't "sound like" that at all. You could not possibly make that judgment based on the two sentences included in the quote.
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#9Question: is it not a standard procedure to stop a Phase III trial early when the statistics warrant it? Isn't this a pretty cut-and-dried statistical question? Naively I would think that there's nothing controversial about ending a trial early, isn't that the ethical thing to do?
I guess the political maneuvering angle before the election complicates all of that, but if the Trump administration is really willing to actually fabricate Phase III trial data, then why trust anything regardless of whether or not the Phase III trial "completes" or not?
Re: Covid vaccine makers commit to not seek approval until complete Phase III trials
#10"Sen. Kamala Harris of California, the Democratic vice presidential nominee, hinted that she would not take a Covid-19 vaccine if one were approved and distributed before the election. “I would not trust Donald Trump,” she said in a CNN interview. “I will not take his word for it.”" Tell me again why I should care what Kamala Harris opinion on the matter is? It must be her infinite knowledge and experience as a train…
Her opinion seems to echo that of 82% of Democrats and 72% of Republicans, who express concern that the timeline for the vaccine may be influenced by political concerns rather than healthcare best practices.
Given the the messaging from the current administration, those concerns are entirely reasonable.