Re:Half Doses of Moderna Vaccine Produce Neutralizing Antibo...
by BurningFrog on Monday February 15, 2021 @02:24PM
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> why do you assume that all the involved experts at the pharmaceutical companies didn't ask those questions?
Pharmaceutical company employees have no power over FDA decisions.
> And as far as I am aware, they did investigate different dosages.
They did, and the result was that half doses produce as strong an immune response as full doses.
This is the basis for this "let's do half doses" argument!
The study was done with the bigger dose, and showed 95% protection.
So we know that (1) dose A has the same effect as dose B, and (2) dose B provides 95% protection.
Obviously (1)+(2) logically implies that using dose A would give twice as many people the same immunity. But logic is not part of the FDA regulatory framework. You have to blindly repeat the protocol of the study, whether it makes sense or not. Whether thousands die or not.
Pharmaceutical company employees have no power over FDA decisions.
> And as far as I am aware, they did investigate different dosages.
They did, and the result was that half doses produce as strong an immune response as full doses.
This is the basis for this "let's do half doses" argument!
The study was done with the bigger dose, and showed 95% protection.
So we know that (1) dose A has the same effect as dose B, and (2) dose B provides 95% protection.
Obviously (1)+(2) logically implies that using dose A would give twice as many people the same immunity. But logic is not part of the FDA regulatory framework. You have to blindly repeat the protocol of the study, whether it makes sense or not. Whether thousands die or not.