If the authorities think the vaccines are safe and save lives, which they believe, intentionally maintaining a control group would be unethical.
“If the authorities think the vaccines are safe and save lives, which they believe, intentionally maintaining a control group would be unethical.”
True. But it’s done all the time in testing. There is always a control group that doesn’t get the medication, and some of the results are pretty horrendous.
But the operative word is think. With no testing, they really have no idea. And to say something is definitively safe when all of the prior requirements to put out a new drug are skipped over is dishonest.