Nicholas Schiefer on Twitter: "@voretaq7 Wait, the FDA's enforcement of a particular standard for drug licensing is *definitely* the bottleneck here. I think you're saying that the FDA's bureaucracy is doing a good job of implementing the regulatory standards we've collectively adopted. Does that sound right?" / Twitter

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Nicholas Schiefer

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Wait, the FDA's enforcement of a particular standard for drug licensing is *definitely* the bottleneck here. I think you're saying that the FDA's bureaucracy is doing a good job of implementing the regulatory standards we've collectively adopted. Does that sound right?

9:31 PM · Aug 11, 2021Twitter Web App

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Put another way: if we had no drug regulatory regime at all, or one based on much looser standards of evidence, I could likely get a Delta booster shot today. So in that sense, the existence of the FDA is a bottleneck, right? That bottleneck might be worth it, of course.

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