Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

The way the standard Phase III trial works is that you need to wait around for enough of the placebo people to get sick by accident to prove that the vaccine is working; it’s a method that *couldn’t* have given us a licensed vaccine before the fall surge. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 29, 2020 Hibernated

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To be clear — obviously you need to test a vaccine before putting it on the market! But it seems to me that many lives and a ton of hardship could have been avoided by accepting volunteers for human challenge trials. — PolitiTweet.org

Don’t think it’s widely appreciated that Moderna made this vaccine basically right away and the whole timeline has… https://t.co/0L7r9YsilG

Posted Nov. 29, 2020 Hibernated

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@hilzoy Yes but that’s my point. Since new diseases will probably keep emerging, we need to establish a system for testing vaccines that doesn’t *depend on* the failure of non-pharmaceutical interventions. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Nov. 29, 2020 Hibernated