“...Moderna just finished recruitment, so they could be done with testing by Christmas....”
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This is very misleading. Moderna should be ready to go to the Feds for emergency use authorization by about November 25th. I would hope that the FDA bureaucrats will not then take their sweet bureaucratic time granting that authorization. The benefits of Trump’s WARP SPEED development would be wasted if once things got to the FDA things slowed down to GLACIAL SPEED. After all, the data from Moderna that the FDA will review will be in the form of easily manipulated electronic databases and spreadsheets. This isn’t the 1950s where they had to deal with a lot of paper reports.
Immediately after the election Trump’s administration needs to lay down the law to the Deep State bureaucrats. Actually, there’s not a reason in the world they couldn’t review data on a flow basis BEFORE November 25th as it becomes available.
November/December. Pretty close.
From their web page - their recruitment was slowed down because they had hard time finding enough people of color willing to participate. It looks like that cost them a month.
As far as reviewing data before the testing is completely finished, that’s a possibility. Actually a great idea! Are they going to do that? Do you have any info?
FDA was a great obstacle in approving a drug in USA. They are overprotective. Because of FDA, we are not getting the newest medicines available. E.g. Voltaren gel was available in Europe over the counter dozen years ago for few bucks. They were even recommended it to pregnant women! While that, we were paying like $140 for prescription tube. Finally now it is over the counter for like $9.99. We still cannot buy the Max (double strength) version.
Trump is trying hard to change that!
Honestly, I was not a big Trump fan four years ago, but he really deliver! So many things has been done which should be done 47 years ago!