Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, death by 85%

Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by tut-urut-utut on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:14AM (#29120416)

"Please don't talk about risk with so much at stake. Just push that code you wrote this morning to our mission-critical production system."

"We can do proper code review, unit testing, integration testing and full test cycle later on, when the pressure fades away."

We engineers all understand the risk of pushing untested code to production, but when it comes to medicine and other fields, we forget everything and rush it out. We basically act based on fear and hope.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by HWR_14 on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:28AM (#29120662)

This already went through Phase III trials. It's closer in analogy to having the entire QA team on standby at their desks to do a full test as soon as you submit a PR at 1:38am for a feature that has to go live ASAP.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by rangoon626 on Friday November 05, 2021 @01:32PM (#29122324)

Lol did you not see the revelations about what was going on inside of Ventavia, the contractor that did the trial research for pfizer?

They broke all sorts of protocols, covered it up, had it reported to the FDA, who in turn just sat on it.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by HWR_14 on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:02PM (#29125172)

The contractor that did a small percentage of the research, yes. Failures and fraud occur, and thankfully this one was small enough that it didn't matter.

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Re:Pfizer's oral Covid-19 antiviral cuts hospitalization, de... by wbl on Friday November 05, 2021 @11:23AM (#29120575)

During an incident you break glass if you have to. Because the risks of inaction outweigh action.

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