RE: FDA caved to political pressure12 Dec 2020 08:27
Doc, this was on Bloomberg couple of days ago:
Much of the discussion so far has focused less on whether the vaccine should be authorized, and more on how its emergency use would affect the scientific integrity of the ongoing trial and the way other vaccines are studied in the future.
“Once you unblind, you can never go back. We can never collect those data that we need and people want unless you completely redo the whole study,” said Dr. Gregory Poland, a virologist from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, who has previously served two terms on the FDA advisory panel.
They have no choice but to unblind it now, the discussions took long not because of the safety, but because of this.. And I am extremely disappointed that they caved...