This is great news. I've been following this vaccine since February when it was created. https://www.modernatx.com/modernas-work-potential-vaccine-ag... It's a little frustrating knowing this cure was out there so long and some of the pain from pandemic could have been reduced only if we had faster testing. IMO we needed a faster pandemic vaccine protocol.
I strongly feel that the FDA should have used challenge trials where they deliberately infect healthy people with the virus after vaccinating them. The approach the FDA chose to use was maybe easier ethically for them to swallow where they just let people in experiment get sick naturally in their every day lives. Using challenge trials we would have gotten these results back weeks faster and with less error bars. Weeks with COVID-19 cost 10,000 of lives.
The FDA still has not approved this vaccine. Everyday that the FDA does not approve this vaccine after results like this is SOME blood on the hands of the FDA.
Or...the USA could have followed the likes of Taiwan et al and rolled out exemplar non-pharmaceutical interventions early and thoroughly, resulting in no more than a handful of deaths.
Even at this point it'll take months and months to roll it out to the population at large, over which time 10s of thousands more will most likely die.
10s of thousands of people will die from Covid-19 in the next couple weeks in the US. And we don't looked to be peaking anytime soon. Maybe mid December if more people recognize the situation we are in more or less immediately?
I strongly feel that the FDA should have used challenge trials where they deliberately infect healthy people with the virus after vaccinating them. The approach the FDA chose to use was maybe easier ethically for them to swallow where they just let people in experiment get sick naturally in their every day lives. Using challenge trials we would have gotten these results back weeks faster and with less error bars. Weeks with COVID-19 cost 10,000 of lives.
The FDA still has not approved this vaccine. Everyday that the FDA does not approve this vaccine after results like this is SOME blood on the hands of the FDA.