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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by umanwizard on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @08:21AM (#30085057)
On the other hand, countless lives would have been saved had we started using the Covid vaccine before the FDA got around to authorizing it. Those VC-funded startup bros at Moderna really could have moved a lot faster without the government’s interference.
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Re:Two weeks later David Bennett is alive, his pig’s heart b... by neuronic on Thursday January 27, 2022 @04:18AM (#30098139)
Incredible, thank you for the live example of this mindset.

This is the epitome of survivorship bias. The Moderna vaccine could have just as well made a lot of people very very sick. There are countless examples of problematic medicines and vaccines which didn't get the scrutiny the COVID vaccines got (and continue to get) simply because not enough people were relevant for the studies and statistics are subsequently weaker.

We should all appreciate it went through the regulatory process (accelerated) to confirm it does not before injecting millions of people with it.

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