From The Age:
Morrison rejects 'very dangerous' rush to approve vaccine
By Nick Bonyhady
The Prime Minister and Chief Medical Officer have rejected calls to rush through approvals for a coronavirus vaccine.
Scott Morrison and Professor Paul Kelly said at a press conference on New Year’s Day that the situation in Australia was different to overseas because there were far fewer cases of coronavirus here, giving the Therapeutic Goods Administration time to assess each vaccine thoroughly for safety and effectiveness.
"With a vaccine you don't rush to failure, that would be very dangerous to Australians,” Mr Morrison said.
Those who suggested otherwise, the Prime Minister said, were "naive".
While the country waits for a vaccine, Professor Kelly said the government had pushed Victoria to step up its coronavirus testing in conversations between health ministers and medical officers.
Countries such as the US and UK that have started vaccinating people have done so with emergency approval of the vaccine, not full approval as with other vaccines.”
I cannot believe this. The normal full licence process takes years. The emergency use authorisations issued by every other western nation of note uses the same strict oversight guidelines and processes, just with the data available today. If we wait until the data set is large enough to give comfort to some bureaucrats then we really won't have an industry left. Morrison is a smirking lightweight who only recognises leadership so that he can stab it in the back.
Last edited by Australopithecus; 1st Jan 2021 at 00:57.