Originally Posted by
Flying Binghi
Lets pull a few quotes from that article:
“..There was a lot of money that was freed up and moved to the places where research was being done,” Burton told Healthline..
..it typically takes 10 to 15 years for a vaccine to come to fruition.
..The COVID-19 vaccines that are currently available in the United States were granted emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). They’re not fully approved.
“The reason that there is not a full licensure given to the vaccines is essentially because we have very limited time in understanding… the mid-term and long-term benefits of the vaccine in the individuals that were vaccinated,”..”
Seems I were wrong with me 8 to 10 years approval time frame.. Oh well, can’t be right all the time..
dr dre, perhaps you best ask the question why, if these vaccines are so well researched, the manufactures are granted full legal indemnity ?
The normal approval time frame is only that long because of 2 factors:
1 - Funding, it takes a lot of time to raise the billions required for a 3 stage approval
2 - Disease! You need outbreaks of the disease that are big enough and consistent enough to actually run the trials. The MERs vaccine never progressed to approval as by the time they were ready for trials the disease had killed itself off.
With Covid we had both, the funding was enormous and plentiful, the disease was everywhere, no shortage of people to participate in the trials, no steps were skips or shortcut.
Pretending otherwise is scaremongering just like your selective quoting. These RNA vaccines were under development for years with the biggest area of research being the vaccination and treatment of Cancer, the most promising of these had stalled as they needed to raise over $3bn for the trial stages, thankfully Covid had super accelerated this area and we have just seen the first mRNA vaccine for Melanoma enter its last stage trials. I assume you will also be reluctant to take advantage of the cancer saving vaccines developed as a direct result of the Covid research and funding?