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Re:Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effec... by happytoexplain on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:21AM (#25958947)
>If vaccines can be developed safely ... without FDA

You forgot a critical distinction: safely every time

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Re:Johnson and Johnson single-shot vaccine appears 66% effec... by Jtsummers on Friday January 29, 2021 @11:45AM (#25959279)
Doesn't need to be every time, it "just" needs to meet or beat the current FDA record. The FDA has approved treatments in the past that turned out to be harmful for substantial numbers of people. If the industry could reliably replicate the FDA's present track record (which is, overall, very good) then the FDA could be shown to be unnecessary.

However, having worked in regulated industries I do not trust industry to do any better than the FDA. At least not in the long term.

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