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Comment by roody15 | Hacker News Reader

Just my two cents: This feels rushed and has serious potential to lead to more division and less faith in government institutions overall.

(am vaccinated 2 doses Moderna)

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It's been about 1.5 years of study, and a billion doses given, give-or-take. There's plenty of data. The FDA usually is a glacial, unmotivated bureaucracy, but for some reason I can't quite put my finger on, this got a little bump in urgency.

But should feelings matter in this question? The vast majority of us has no intuition when it comes to vaccine approval processes, as is the case with most things that aren't every day experiences. (And even then intuition or gut feelings can be misleading.)

Criticism should point out concrete failures to meet regulations or errors in the statistical analysis of the trials.

Compared to what?

I thought everyone was saying full approval of vaccines take years of clinical trials. This was done much more quickly than that.

There are years of clinical trials for mRNA vaccines, as well as a countless studies done on SARS-COV viruses.

This is just taking some existing technologies and knowledge of the vaccines and creating a new variant of what's been tested before.

Also, we know have well over a year's worth of data on millions of people to look at as well.

Most of those years are not clinical trials they are getting funding to run a trail.

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