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by riccia
2018 days ago
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So I work in public health, with public health colleagues. I came up with analyses pieced together from the publicly reported information and think that piece is a little disturbing. Sure, you can come up with some standard numbers in an hour. But it wouldn't be the most thoughtful analysis, and the decision isn't really about a single efficacy estimate anyway. I guess I figure if you're going to go down this route of pissing matches over how fast you can do an analysis on how big of a dataset, why the hell even have an FDA anyway? Just require the company post all their information and get rid of the regulation entirely. I actually think this isn't an unreasonable argument, even if I don't necessarily agree or disagree with it. It certainly seems more reasonable to me than "we should have a regulator that just rubber stamps things." I'm fine with the FDA taking their time. The problem with risk in decisions is people forget in high stakes high risk decision making, it's about the process. This whole discussion about the FDA taking too long will look a lot different if a year from now the vaccine turns out to have some horrible long term effects (which it could, even though I think it's unlikely, just, you know, 'cause). |
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No one is saying don't be thorough. What I'm saying and Makary is saying and the UK is saying is that the required thoroughness shouldn't take this long and when it does, real human lives are lost and sustained invasive measures in the freedoms of individuals are required.
> I guess I figure if you're going to go down this route of pissing matches over how fast you can do an analysis on how big of a dataset, why the hell even have an FDA anyway?
What a ridiculous leap. That's so many logical steps away from "the FDA moves way too slow" it's an absurdity. Who is arguing against the FDA's existence other than I guess you now sort of???