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Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by Alex3917 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @08:25PM (#24025193)
> I don’t take anything that’s only approved in the US, because the FDA really doesn’t care, and especially doesn’t care right now.

Alternatively, just don't take anything where the patent hasn't expired. Once the patent has been expired for a few years you'll actually get the truth about the dangers of the drug, because the pharma companies then need to make the old drugs look dangerous in comparison to the new ones. (E.g. why they're publishing fake data about hydroxychloroquine in Lancet and elsewhere.)

Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by ponker on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:26PM (#24025516)
Just taking a hard pass on all pharmaceuticals developed in the last 20 years is not a highly optimized strategy.
Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by Alex3917 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:31PM (#24025846)
I mean if you are going to potentially die otherwise then that's one thing. But if you go to the doctor with a sore throat and they hand you some random script for something you've never heard of, hard pass is a pretty good strategy.

The appropriate way to make medical decisions is based on data, but if a drug is still under patent then the data isn't there.

Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by ChrisLomont on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:56AM (#24028420)
So the day a patent expires the data suddenly appears?
Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by new2628 on Sunday August 02, 2020 @03:23AM (#24027012)
You are right, 50 years is probably smarter, 20 is too little for all the effects to come out.
Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by ponker on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:11PM (#24033861)
yep... waiting until 2010 to get vaccinated against measles definitely says “high IQ”
Re:AstraZeneca exempt from coronavirus vaccine liability cla... by new2628 on Monday August 03, 2020 @03:14AM (#24034952)
Being an "early adopter" when it comes to non-essential medicine is not too smart either.

Referring to IQ as a stand-in for intelligence is yet another blind alley.