Indeed. I need a proverbial shower just thinking about how asinine our national response has been. Again, if it was a worldwide emergency that needed immediate action they should have been testing everything that could be reasonably considered a treatment. But they did the opposite. And worse than that, they intentionally put out very bad studies which seemed to me to be an effort to cast a pall over the idea that some combination of readily available generic medicines might be very useful. For example a few doctors were finding success with HCQ+ and told the world how to administer it and when (early upon diagnoses or first symptoms). And instead of running with that, others did trials using just HCQ (without the vitamins and minerals and antibiotics that the doctors were using) and gave it to very sick ICU patients and said “see, it doesn’t work”.
That’s not science. Science is repeating the exact same methods and exact same controls to prove and predict the outcome to some high degree of confidence. That is why the FDA normally requires all new drugs to go through multiple randomized clinical trials. Usually two Phase 3 trials, which come after multiple Phase I and Phase II trials. They are usually very highly controlled to repeat results - they can’t just change the protocols at whim and call it “science”.
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Agreed. When reading the Pfizer trial information, or trying to read it, it looks like they’ve redefined the concept of trial completely, partly to conceal that we’re probably now in the start of their phase III trial now.
PubMed Central, : Drugs. 2021 Mar 8 : 1–7. doi: 10.1007/s40265-021-01480-7 [Epub ahead of print] (nih.gov)
Images don’t define when Phase II ends and Phase III begins. Intentionally. That’s why they blend Phase I, II, III.
Phase III ends either in October of 2021, or January 2023. It really look like we the people are phase III
I think the image is copyrighted so I’ll just link it.
https://i.imgur.com/CiarVXB.png
You’d have to look up those trial numbers at clinicaltrials.gov to see what they are about.
Study to Describe the Safety, Tolerability, Immunogenicity, and Efficacy of RNA Vaccine Candidates Against COVID-19 in Healthy Individuals
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04368728?term=04368728&draw=2&rank=1
A Trial Investigating the Safety and Effects of Four BNT162 Vaccines Against COVID-2019 in Healthy and Immunocompromised Adults
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04380701?term=04380701&draw=2&rank=1
