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by krrrh 942 days ago
Counterpoint: it’s totally embarrassing that the US public had to learn about the serious issues of myocarditis amongst young men and blood clots from J&J from Israeli and European public health, and that it took several months, and arguably more than a year for US public health to fully acknowledge the myocarditis issue with US data from VSD [0] (let’s put to the side what a mess VAERS is).

European countries acted swiftly to increase the time between primary series doses for anyone under 40 (give or take depending on country), and also restricted Moderna for young men as it’s higher dose produced many more myocarditis cases than Pfizer. US regulators for some reason seem to have a parochial view of data provenance and didn’t take these common sense approaches.

[0] https://www.cdc.gov/vaccinesafety/ensuringsafety/monitoring/...