Here's the Fierce Pharma piece, from a few days ago -- and a bit:
. . . .Frazier said officials are doing a “grave disservice” to the public by talking up the potential for vaccines later this year. There are massive scientific and logistical obstacles to achieving such a feat, he said.
“What worries me the most is that the public is so hungry, is so desperate to go back to normalcy, that they are pushing us to move things faster and faster,” Frazier said. “Ultimately, if you are going to use a vaccine in billions of people, you’d better know what that vaccine does.”
On the scientific front, Frazier brought up the fact that it typically takes several years or longer to develop vaccines. Merck won approval for its mumps vaccine after four years of research and development, a record, and it took five and a half years to score an approval for Merck’s Ebola vaccine. . . .
I might gently counter Mr. Frazier's last obsevations, by mentioning that Ebola to this very day, has remained a half-a-globe away -- largely confined to a corner of the globe many white Americans never give a second thought about (if we are being honest, here, on the "confronting systemic US racism" front). This time, it is local -- though not as lethal -- and it is crashing the US economic engine. Now you know. . . . grinning, under a clear night sky.
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Agreed. You must consider the politics.
As for Operation Warp Speed, I am definitely concerned about politics being inserted and that's regardless of whether the President Mr. Trump or not.
Under Operation Warp Speed we have three different areas of concern.
1) Vaccine approval
2) Tests under devices
3) Drug treatments
Each of which have issues.
First as to vaccine approvals there have been a number of articles in the press and medical literature indicating that it's ripe for fraud and political pressure. In fact Peter Marks, the head of the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, which will approve any vaccine left operation warp speed after only a few days citing political pressures.
Second we've already had a number of problems with tests approved by the FDA device division.
Lastly are the drugs, such as the emergency use authorization for hydroxycholorquine where Janet Woodcock the Director of the Center for Drugs is on loan to Operation Warp speed. Woodcock has been accused a number of times of being involved in corrupt and illegal drugs approvals which I will not go into here.
Agreed my friend.
Enjoy your Sunday evening. . . grin.
You are seen, man. . . .
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