Not one person, including the reporter, has any idea about what goes in to bringing a vaccine to market. Not one of the Tennesseans interviewed showed any intellectual curiosity, just fear and blind faith.
Pre-clinical trials first in laboratory animal to show safety of a new drug before it ever goes into people. Humans are not the guinea pigs. Guinea Pigs and other laboratory animals are.
Phase 1 small scale safety trials, 30 -80 patients in Clinic, that is, in primarily human populations, to monitor ingestion, absorption, metabolism, and excretion.
OK, it's safe in animals and relatively healthy people.
The IND moves to phase II testing in larger trials designed to target the virus or disease. Hundreds of patients at investigational sites across the country. Each patient enrolled is tracked and measured and monitored via case report forms which are the rawest of raw data.
Meetings with the FDA and another larger trial--large numbers of people with the targeted disease. Depending on the disease or treatment, thousands, even multiple thousands of patients.
That's what actual doctors in actual clinics (hospitals in this instance) have been doing since the onset of virus in China and the East, Europe, and the United States, among other areas. My work was not with the vaccine group--who have to be extra tested because it's not small populations of breast cancer, ovarian cancer, non narcotic pain relief, anti virals or anti fungals, but all 330;000,000 AMericans, oh, yeah, and the world, too.
They want more testing and more time, yet refused to do the very simple thing that would have kept the curve flat and bought us that time. They live in fear which triggers this irrational pattern of anti science, anti vaxx dangerous tomfoolery.
Fine, don't get a vaccine. But carry a card in yur wallet saying to refuse any ER or ICU care because it's just a hoax.
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