Nate Silver

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

Why did the FDA recommend the pause anyway? Because of a combination of institutional culture, cognitive biases, and bureaucratic imperatives incentives, they greatly overweight the importance of rare adverse effects relative to people dying from COVID. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 13, 2021

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Also, part of the reason media coverage may be confused is that the FDA's reasoning isn't super logical. It probably isn't rational to pause administration of a vaccine that's already been given out 7 million times for "extremely rare" events in the middle of a deadly pandemic. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 13, 2021

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But unless they know about that institutional culture, it's understandable that regular folks may think "hmm, maybe there's more going on". Especially when public health officials have eroded trust by telling a lot of "noble lies" to people, e.g. in the early days re: masks. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 13, 2021