maybe they used to take 9 years. Reality is, there are now two years of clinical data across 8 billion and counting vaccinations and 269 million infected. To get some perspective, the first computer mouse was invented in 1991. 30 years later, it’s touchscreen, voice command, motion control headsets, and spacelaunches calculated on laptops. Medical science wasn’t left behind in the ability to identify and crunch numbers.
So it becomes not so much length of trials, as ability to aggregate data in a meaningful way for real-time results.
It’s this same ability that led to monoclonals being deemed a preferential treatment (and with wide acceptance) less than 6 months after Trump first ‘introduced’ them to the gen pop last November... There are risks to monoclonals, too, but same as vaccines, the risk from disease is worse
And yet, they want over 50 years to release that data that was developed during a period before the vast vaccinated numbers you cite for now.
A vital part of clinical trials is consistent, accurate, disciplined, and timely record-keeping on not just the test subjects getting the serum but those getting the placebo. All subjects get checked out at designated intervals, vitals are recorded, side-effects are documented, boundary cases are reviewed, and recoveries and deaths are verified. That boring yet mission-critical data collection process is, in many ways, the only way a robust statistical analysis can be performed to determine if the serum works as intended without bad side effects.
The placebo recipients in the Moderna EUA trials (that, btw, ran a few months in 2020) were offered - and received - the actual shots. That destroyed any ability to continue with the next phase of the clinical trial. Furthermore, there was no follow-up in a consistent/clinical trial-like manner with any of the test subjects.
Compounding these problems is the rabid political science around recipients who got sick, "died suddenly" or "died unexpectedly" and the demonization of anyone who suggests that these shots may have some nasty long-term side effects. To be sure, there are political axes to grind on both sides of the aisle. But what happens if two years after getting two doses then a booster (and, by the way, even the boosters aren't getting long-term trials either) everyone's big toe falls off?
We do not have two years of clinical data. We have anarchy, a plethora of small biostatistical studies trying to make heads or tails out of these shots with no rigorous long-term analysis, name-calling in the media and society, and now we have an Administration using OSHA to do their bidding.
Again, if people want to get these shots, more power to them. It's their choice. If they don't want to get them, they have more than enough of a clinical basis to take a pass.
Citing numbers includes:
Using Worldometer’s latest “data” — with quotes around the word because the pretense at rigor in data taxonomy, collection, analysis and reporting is questionable — one finds:
( 5,261,659 deaths worldwide / 7,911,098,750 ) x 100 = circa 0.067 %
In plain words, the “pandemic” dead comprise less than one-tenth of one percent of the general population worldwide, in a world where about one percent of a population dies off each year as a rule of thumb.
As to the “two years of clinical data,” the mRNA vaccines have been given under the “emergency use authorization” since last December, in phase three clinical trials which will not be complete until the coming years. Even so, our FDA wants to reply to FOIA requests by taking decades to release “data.” And the “data” from the ongoing clinical trials are also not currently available.
Or perhaps you have the data? Which data do you trust? Please cite links to your data.
It is fascinating that so much reporting, positive and negative, is about telling what the future will bring. Other reporting, positive and negative, chooses some but not all data.