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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by raverbashing on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:12PM (#26795586)
> It is that it is an unknown side effect that did not come up in the original studies.

Well, obviously it didn't. Exactly because it is so rare

A clinical study with (I think) 30k people can't detect something that's 1 in a million case

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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by doikor on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:14PM (#26795619)
Yes. And that is why when something like this pops up we stop giving out the treatment while we look at the new data and make the decision.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by njarboe on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:42PM (#26796117)
So we stop giving out treatment and an extra 1000-10000(?) people die and we delay the economy getting back on track for a week or two with the delay. No skin off the FDA bureaucrats teeth, but they are hurting a lot of people with this decision.
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Re:US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine by doikor on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @01:49PM (#26796253)
We don't know any of that. What if it ends up killing more than that?

> FDA bureaucrats

You mean doctors. These decisions are done by doctors as they should be. The current (acting) head of FDA is a physician too.

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