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Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by bamboozled »

justforfunhere wrote: post #9
DSingularity wrote: post #3

Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?

I guess, from a business perspective, a vaccine manufacturer would seldom get a chance or a time like this. We are seeing history in making. Literally the whole world is holding its breath for a vaccine to arrive.

Too bad if we ever have a pandemic where developing a vaccine takes years.

If this works out, we will be far less prepared for the next one because, why bother ?

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by that_guy_iain »

speeder wrote: post #23

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Why would the media say sorry because experts said something else? Why would the media be held accountable for what others say? Their job is to report what is happening and reporting what the experts say, seems to be exactly what they should be doing. When the experts are wrong they report that but they shouldn't be expected to be apologetic about it.

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by nojito »

tuna-piano wrote: post #18

-Great great news. Can't wait to get the needle in the arm ASAP. -Seems extremely effective at limiting covid disease. -Very curious as to how long will the vaccine immunity will last? -Seems with the second dose for 18-55 year olds, perhaps 75% will feel fatigue, 50% have chills and 20% will have a fever.[1] This hasn't been widely shared yet and I'm a bit concerned how the public will react. -Safety: Given the huge…

>Other vaccines have been pulled from the market for safety reasons

This isn't true at all. There has been 2 voluntary recalls due to manufacturing issues which not led to any health problems.

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by lm28469 »

speeder wrote: post #23

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> Trump was lying about the vaccine ... I wonder if the media will say sorry for getting that wrong.

If you lie on a prediction that turns out to be true it still is a lie. He also said covid would not be an issue in the US, and that covid would go away in the summer, and that we'll have a cure in "a few weeks" every week since March. You can't just throw random ideas out and see what ends up being true to say "eh, told you I was not lying"

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by baybal2 »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #16
DSingularity wrote: post #3

Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?

Despite being extremely pro-vac I'm going to postpone getting vaccinated with this for as long as possible (at least a couple of years hopefully). Even if they would disallow me to travel abroad I would rather stay in my home country. I've heard about a guy who volunteered to try the Russian vaccine - he got extremely sick and almost died from inflammatory cardiomyopathy as the result. So I want to see thousands of p…

And what so?

Sputnik 5 is a live virus vaccine, Moderna and Fizer are RNA vaccines with, hopefully, no live viral material as such.

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by that_guy_iain »

nojito wrote: post #8
DSingularity wrote: post #3

Does this feel rushed to anyone? Why don’t they stagger the release? Why jump from initial trials involving thousands to widespread distribution involving millions?

You can't rush Stage III of vaccine trials. 95% with a p of < .0001 is unheard of in Vaccines. This is an amazing feat for science.

Sorry, but what does p stand for?

Re: Pfizer submits Covid vaccine to FDA for approval, to distribute in December

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Post by king_panic »

baxter001 wrote: post #30
speeder wrote: post #23

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A retraction for being one week out with their predictions and not expecting a new vaccine to get exceptional early distribution authorization?

First two words are right. Rest is a misrepresentation of OP
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