FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedules for Covid-19 vaccines

Re:FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedule... by bobcostas55 on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:07PM (#25647688)

Following the status quo path will likely result in significantly more people dying. It's a gamble either way, and if you want to argue that the risk of a first-doses-first approach is not worth the risk, then quantify your reasoning and explain exactly how many extra deaths you're willing to accept instead of these platitudes about paths.

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Re:FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedule... by curiousllama on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @12:28PM (#25648034)

You can't ask me to quantify my reasoning and then throw out wild unsubstantiated claims out like:

> Following the status quo path will likely result in significantly more people dying

Besides, the clinical trials _are_ quantified. The issue is we don't have data for the potential changes.

Armchair speculation of "maybe half will work" != data

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Re:FDA statement on following the authorized dosing schedule... by mhb on Tuesday January 05, 2021 @04:44PM (#25651563)

No. But we can ask the FDA to justify its reasoning by sharing their modeling of the expected value of QALY for different courses of actions. It's ridiculous for them to spit out a proclamation like this without providing a framework for the decision other than "has not been tested".

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