It took 60 years to develop the Polio vaccine and less than six months to do a novel mRNA vaccine. Normal FDA approval process through four phases takes 6 to 12 years.
So, yeah, this was one big Tuskegee experiment.
I don’t blame you for being skeptical. Even though I knew mRNA vaccines had been in works for decades and not really all that new, I questioned whether quality control could be maintained to top standards what with the vaccines being rushed in manufacture. The same way I’d wonder about QC if the Chinese had some fantastical weapon that had completely rendered our cars useless and there was a warp speed manufacture of new cars to replace them. What if the brakes or clutch were not properly installed and caused me to wreck?
I also worried about long-term effects that might not be caught in the rushed trials. Yes, people had reason to question and be skeptical.
Now that the Covid virus has muted to be more contagious but less virulent, as viruses as f its type tend to do, and the vaccines are of little use against the new variants, the question of whether to get vaccinated is now moot. And we should just get on with our lives.
“It took 60 years to develop the Polio vaccine and less than six months to do a novel mRNA vaccine. Normal FDA approval process through four phases takes 6 to 12 years.”
In 1948 Jonas Salk was given a research grant from The March of Dimes. He began working on a novel type of vaccine using a killed virus.
In 1953 Salk first tested his vaccine on people. He tried it on former polio patients, and on himself, his wife and children.
In 1954 the first large scale testing began on a million subjects.
In April 1955 the vaccine was declared a success and large scale inoculation began.
A few weeks later 250 cases of polio resulted from a batch of vaccine made by Cutter Labs.