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OhhhJa posted...

No need to be a douchebag. Pandemrix is a vaccine that was pushed out really quickly similar to the covid vaccines. Difference is that it wasn't a completely new type of vaccine like the mRNA ones. Still there were lots of adverse effects

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandemrix#:~:text=Pandemrix%20is%20an%20influenza%20vaccine,and%20patented%20in%20September%202006.

So... it still wasn't "untested," which is the central point of what I said.

Moreover, it's a given that trials of 30-40,000 participants aren't going to catch one-in-a-million side effects. That's going to be true no matter how "rushed" a product is. The standards set by the FDA and other regulatory agencies (which, I must again point out, all Covid vaccines are meeting before being approved, despite the accelerated timeline) do not and cannot rule out extremely rare side effects. They can only catch the ones that are common enough to render the treatment more dangerous than the disease, and in an emergency situation like this, it's perfectly reasonable to push ahead with the best available option instead of waiting for something perfect.

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