Unfortunately, FDA approval is being rushed and may appear as early as next week, possibly in order to justify mandates. This is despite (a) Pfizer trial does not conclude until Jan 2023, (b) the control group for the trials have been lost.
And the key question would be: is there any statistically significant report of safety or efficacy problems in any peer reviewed study or even reported through VARES?
Some autopsies are finally being done in US and Germany, which have already been able to identify some deaths which can be directly attributed to vaccines. It will take time, but physical evidence from those proven cases can help focus the search for patterns in the data, which in turn can guide the design of new studies to screen those few who may be at risk from vaccines.
Nothing was omitted from my statement. They have been authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, not the full approval process because, if we waited for full approval, we would have no vaccines at all because full approval can take well over a year.
In any case, the Pfizer vaccine is expected to be fully approved within days.
>Nothing was omitted from my statement. They have been authorized under an Emergency Use Authorization, not the full approval process because, if we waited for full approval, we would have no vaccines at all because full approval can take well over a year.
The authorization's value was in allowing voluntary vaccination by those who are willing to undergo vaccination before FDA approval. There's a big difference between being _allowed_ to be injected with a substance, versus being _forced_ to be injected with a substance under pain of losing the job that provides for housing, health insurance, and other legal mandates that you could be thrown in jail for (like child support) if you are terminated "for cause" and unable to pay.
>In any case, the Pfizer vaccine is expected to be fully approved within days.
Excellent! We should hold vaccinations to at least this standard before we force people to take them, if people must be forced.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252026 & https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28252075