This is an interesting claim. The process and science behind clinical trials, some of which take more than 7 years to complete, usually provides enough safety data to understand how well a drug is tolerated by people. If NO ONE takes a new drug, how do you establish whether it's safe or not--other than what clinical trials offer?
Vaccines are a little different--I'm wondering if Goetzche's advice is for all drugs, or more for vaccines?
Even still, every drug (and vaccine) will have some side effects. The challenge of medicine is to weigh the risks of those side effects against the benefits for curing or managing the disease. This is where I think the COVID vaccines fall short...for most people, the risks are extremely small. Vaccinate the high-risk groups if needed, but leave the healthy populations to their own immune systems.
“This is where I think the COVID vaccines fall short...for most people, the risks are extremely small. Vaccinate the high-risk groups if needed, but leave the healthy populations to their own immune systems.”
The vaccines were never approved/nor intended to be used in the young and healthy populations.
Use them with patients in nursing home/senior centers and people like me in my 80’s, with a cardiac stent, CHF and Central sleep apnea (csa). Finally, use with patients with immunocompromised problems.
Most 1-20 ages and under people have minimal problems and are asymptomatic and do not need a vaccination. They seldom need to be treated.
The basic healthy people ages 21-65 can be treated with the simple out patient drugs on the market and avoid going to the hospital. We had one 56 year old son and a 50 year old son, who adopted us, get the crud. They were/are basically in excellent health and the crud hit them like a mack truck.
Within a few days on the oral outpatient treatments, they started feeling better and finished the 5 day treatment. It took them about 2-3 weeks to feel halfway decent. 6-8 weeks, later, they are okay. No one in their immediate families ever had any real disease symptoms.