This isn't a failure. This is the quickest vaccine rollout ever. The way you do statistics for this means that the overkill speeds up how quickly you can verify effectiveness. For example, if you do a booster after 6 months, that adds 6 months to your study time. If you try to thread the needle to make the smallest possible vaccine, you need way more testing to prove it works. The approach taken is why we have 10% of the US vaccinated now instead of having a vaccine approved in 2 years.

> This isn't a failure. This is the quickest vaccine rollout ever

Tell that the to the 400,000 dead, buddy. They made the vaccine in January 2020. GOVERNMENT rules mean I STILL have not gotten it well over a year later. My NINETY year old Grandma doesn't have it yet. Nice effort though. How does that leather boot taste?

Whoa, you can't post like this or https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26138561 here.

We've warned you several times before. If you keep posting flamewar comments to HN we will have to ban you. I don't want to ban you, so please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and use HN in the intended spirit—thoughtful, curious conversation—from now on.

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In your view, what should Fauci have done differently?

When did he say masks are bad?

At first, it wasn't clear we needed to use them. It wasn't just Fauci. Not only that, but we didn't have enough production for everyone to have them and it was more important that certain population groups had them. The message changed when it was more clear they were necessary and we started to get enough production that we could have the general public wear them.

When were numbers made up? Can you give specifics that aren't due to learning new facts?