Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them...
by beerandt on Saturday July 31, 2021 @03:35AM
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>It was based on the idea that the decision to approve the vaccine is the job of the FDA and that they have to pass their safety and effectiveness verdict.
You can't claim they were just following the rules, because they weren't. They bended and broke whatever rules they saw fit to get the vaccine done, including doing multiple phases simultaneously. If the FDA were following the rules, we still wouldn't have a vaccine available, because they still don't have full FDA approval.
>Trump was still rejecting SARS-COV-19 as irrelevant
Trump was called racist by Congressional D's for wanting to shut down the international travel to prevent the spread in February.
Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them...
by throwaway_se099 on Saturday July 31, 2021 @06:37AM
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The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later)
UK MHRA: Dec 2. US FDA: Dec 11. European EMA/EC: Dec 21. Months later? Hyperbole doesn't help your argument.
Re:AI tools have been built to catch Covid, but none of them...
by oezi on Saturday July 31, 2021 @07:12AM
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I got misled by parent. I knew that Biontech had received EU approval in December but from parents comment understood that in the US the approval came shortly after the elections. Sorry.
Still: don't you think the argument holds: US FDA is one of the first to approve is a sign that there can't be much delay.
The US FDA was among the first world-wide to approve (Europe was months later) which in my mind shows that there is not much to an argument that political forces delayed the announcement (and how could the opposition / democrats influence a government institution such as the FDA if the ruling party couldn't? Please no deep state bonkers).
> The vaccines they are pushing now are the very same ones that were developed and tested while Trump was in office.
I would challenge that Trump should receive any political credit for supporting the development of the vaccines, because when the development was happening at Moderna (US) and BionTech (Germany) in spring 2020 Trump was still rejecting SARS-COV-19 as irrelevant. Trump should receive credit for Warpspeed that made sure the production of the developed vaccines is happening and is happening in a way that benefits the American people first (to great frustration to many Europeans).