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In reply to the discussion: "The vaccine was rushed." [View all]BumRushDaShow
(170,232 posts)64. You still miss the fact that we are talking about the federal government
There are multiple people involved in "Public Health" - normally coordinated by the head of the US Public Health Service (PHS) - the Surgeon General (currently Vice Admiral Vivek H. Murthy), who would usually be the "point person".
At present, you have one agency - FDA - who is STILL lacking a Commissioner (a nominee was only recently submitted this past November), so the staffing is still incomplete.
Murthy has been doing the rounds (and is expected to continue to do so) as well -
Senate confirms Dr. Vivek Murthy as US surgeon general
CNN Digital Expansion 2018, Caroline Kelly
By Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 8:27 PM ET, Tue March 23, 2021
(snip)
Murthy was a top health adviser to the Biden campaign. He was part of Biden's public health advisory committee as the pandemic first took hold in the US and served as a co-chair of the President-elect's Covid-19 advisory board during the transition.
Two sources familiar with the matter told CNN in December that Murthy is expected to have an expanded portfolio in the Biden administration. As surgeon general under President Barack Obama, a position he held from 2014 to 2017, Murthy helped lead the national response to the Ebola and Zika viruses and the opioid crisis, among other health challenges.
(snip)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/senate-confirms-vivek-murthy-surgeon-general/index.html
CNN Digital Expansion 2018, Caroline Kelly
By Caroline Kelly, CNN
Updated 8:27 PM ET, Tue March 23, 2021
(snip)
Murthy was a top health adviser to the Biden campaign. He was part of Biden's public health advisory committee as the pandemic first took hold in the US and served as a co-chair of the President-elect's Covid-19 advisory board during the transition.
Two sources familiar with the matter told CNN in December that Murthy is expected to have an expanded portfolio in the Biden administration. As surgeon general under President Barack Obama, a position he held from 2014 to 2017, Murthy helped lead the national response to the Ebola and Zika viruses and the opioid crisis, among other health challenges.
(snip)
https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/23/politics/senate-confirms-vivek-murthy-surgeon-general/index.html
But Fauci is actually the only one who is a CAREER (not appointed) official, having been so for the past 50+ years and has been involved with the federal government's role in the research (and patents) related to the Moderna vaccine, so he has special insight (but limited for public disclosure due to the usual NDAs).
Biden hasn't even been in office a year so all of the pieces and parts of the federal public health apparatus are still being assembled.
And perhaps you need to watch the movie, but I expect you prefer "sound bite science".
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It wasn't rushed in the first place. The mRNA technology that made it possible
Ocelot II
Jan 2022
#3
Yes. The very point I was preparing to post. 10 years in development, including trials
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2022
#20
2013, Rabies, influenza, Zika and more. 2001 first trial of mRNA. 2008 first mRNA vaccine
Bernardo de La Paz
Jan 2022
#52
part of the reason the vaccine was released quickly is it performed so well in Pfizer's trial
cadoman
Jan 2022
#8
The various Covid vaccines have been more thoroughly tested than Covid infection itself...
RockRaven
Jan 2022
#10
Even assuming there are unforeseen side effects that won't kick in until years later,
Ocelot II
Jan 2022
#18
Tell them that researchers at MIT started work on the mRNA technology in the 70's.
pnwmom
Jan 2022
#12
These RNA vaccines are the culmination of more than 2 decades of work. The problem...
NNadir
Jan 2022
#14
Testing steps normally done sequentially were done simultaneously but they were STILL done.
CousinIT
Jan 2022
#32
Every single excuse used to deny or refuse the vaccine can be boiled down to this:
Orrex
Jan 2022
#33
I was paranoid as heck while they were 'rushing' through developing the vaccine.
PatrickforB
Jan 2022
#36
The development of the COVID vaccines was the culmination of many years of progress.
DickKessler
Jan 2022
#44
I think people have forgotten that experts, including Fauci, said a vaccine would take a long time.
former9thward
Jan 2022
#45