Why is it “creepy” to be excited to be able to save lives during a pandemic? To me it’s creepy to prefer letting #COVID19 rip through the population in a futile attempt to achieve “natural herd immunity” at the potential cost of millions of deaths.
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Replying to @MikeNovembear @gorskon
You bring up thalidomide but I don't think you know what that means.https://www.fda.gov/about-fda/virtual-exhibits-fda-history/frances-oldham-kelsey-medical-reviewer-famous-averting-public-health-tragedy …
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And because of that disaster countries all over the world changed the kind of testing the require for medicines. It’s not like anyone is depending on luck a second time.
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Indeed. As a result of the thalidomide disaster, Congress passed the Kefauver-Harris Drug Amendments to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act in 1962.
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Replying to @gorskon @mermitling and
Before the Kefauver-Harris Amendments,
@US_FDA only required the demonstration that a drug was safe before approving it. The amendments created the FDA we know today, in which evidence of safety AND efficacy is required for drug approval.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes
As an aside, it never ceases to amuse and annoy me how some people who rant about thalidomide also think that the FDA is being too strict and "keeping cures from the people" to benefit big pharma...
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Replying to @MikeNovembear @gorskon and
If you want to learn you’d be better served with STAT and not Twitter.
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