First step is testing safety. Then you give it to a much larger group to establish the level of effectiveness, since you need a lot of data to establish that. After the effectiveness is established you would declare it safe AND effective.
SMH. Can’t imagine how that’s not obvious.
It seems a lot of people misunderstand that being declared “safe” doesn’t mean it’s effective and being declared “effective” doesn’t mean it’s safe.
For example: water is safe, but it’s not an effective treatment for a heart attack. And dying is an effective treatment for heartburn (it’ll stop it) but it sure as hell ain’t safe.
It’s important to have both.
I accidentally inhaled maybe half a teaspoon of water the other day. Was coughing up mucus and even a little foam for like three days. I googled “am I in danger if I inhale a little water?” and it was like “you gon die muthafucka!”
But if I went to the ER every time google told me I was gonna die I’d be in so much debt.
Anyway I’m still here for now. I’m still coughing up weird globs of mucus at random moments.
I fucking hate how expensive medicine is.
That’s great news! One upside of Covid is that it increased funding toward vaccine development strategies. Hopefully we’ll get even more effective vaccines for other hard to treat diseases.
My comment was removed by a mod. I thought lemmy was all about freedom. Fuck this place there already is cencored forum - it’s reddit. Suck ass mod.
I thought lemmy was all about freedom.
Some places are moderated, some are not. Depends on the individual community and instance. See sidebar on the right.
I was pondering how corporations within capitalism operate as communist dictatorships internally. I was wondering why it doesn’t bother me as much as a country operating as a communist dictatorship.
And the answer is: you can leave that corporation and go to another one any time.
Whereas countries that become communist dictatorships have to put up walls to keep people from leaving.
So the real horror isn’t the communist dictatorship. It’s the communist dictatorship you can’t leave.
Kinda like bdsm I guess. Consent is everything. “Take everything I produce and redistribute it as you see fit, Daddy!”
ahhh, finally a vaccine they can legitimately say Bill Gates wanted to make