The ‘long term consequences’ from dying from COVID are well known.
IYO, How many additional deaths from delaying the vaccines ten years would be justified?
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Without control groups, it’s all speculation. We have no way of determining how many more would have died with our without a vaccine without control groups. At best, the remaining unvaxxed population is our long term control group.
The reasons for long term testing of drugs is to prevent disasters such a Thalidomide from happening again.
Flick Lives wrote: “Without control groups, it’s all speculation. We have no way of determining how many more would have died with our without a vaccine without control groups. At best, the remaining unvaxxed population is our long term control group.”
And that is a rather large control group isn’t it?
Flick Lives wrote: “The reasons for long term testing of drugs is to prevent disasters such a Thalidomide from happening again.”
That’s not the real reason for such a long development period. The real driver time-wise was the desire to save money. Everything was done in sequence with long delays between events. Warp Speed did things in parallel saving time. You may find this interesting:
https://www.nebraskamed.com/COVID/were-the-covid-19-vaccines-rushed