Weird that you think that FDA procedure is an eternal, unchangeable fact of nature. This was apparently a virus serious enough to shut off all world travel, confine everyone in the country to their homes and yet FDA couldn't imagine a faster way to determine safety / efficacy.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
But they did. This one was approved a lot faster than usual. Orders of magnitude. Everything was fast tracked. A typical anti vax conspiracy idea is “untested, too fast”.
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Replying to @vious_and_couth @toad_spotted
"Orders of magnitude"? The usual process takes 100 years? "Fast tracking" a stupid process is not something you get credit for. If it's enough of an emergency to react how the entire world reacted it's enough of an emergency to actually get testing done in 6 weeks.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
How do we get from “the FDA, were they a lot more competent, could have speed up this one even more” to “the FDA tried to prevent it from happening”?
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Replying to @vious_and_couth @toad_spotted
Choosing to not take any of the suggestions for faster testing for safety / efficacy (human challenge trials) but instead choosing to decide that the multi-year long process was the only possibility *was a choice by FDA*. They chose delay - passive resistance.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
It took less than a year to approve the vaccines.
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Replying to @vious_and_couth @toad_spotted
It took nearly a year when it could have taken 6 weeks. That's putting as many obstacles in the way of approval as they can get away with - if they tried to slow it more, discussion would have turned to eliminating the agency and barring all employees from government for life.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
I’m arguing FDA benevolence and incompetency. You’re arguing FDA malevolence and hypercompetency. It’s the FDA. It’s incompetence.
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Replying to @vious_and_couth @toad_spotted
Hypercomptence at bureaucratic obstruction. Putting out a request for a proposal for a 6 week process with human challenge trials permitted was all they needed to do - someone else could have come up with the actual plan. They chose not to do that b/c they didn't want to approve
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
A massive org settling on a radical solution they’ve never used before in a time where even voicing nonstandard ideas will get you fired is a nearly intractable coordination problem. This is the real world.
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Yet somehow every other massive org settled on never before used radical solutions...
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @toad_spotted
And it’s extremely surprising and seen as heralding a new age of technological progress. And it’s orgs whose job it is to innovate. The FDAs job is to regulate, which they did, but faster than usual.
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