I don't give a fuck where it is developed. I just want it developed.
Just not soon.
You still refuse to get it.
I know how long a Phase 3 trial usually takes.
Today Dr. Fauci said what I have known all along: if the trial is getting overwhelmingly positive results, then to withhold it ceases to be ethical - you are not
allowed to continue the trial, because to give placebos is to do injury.
But very very few trials ever go that way and betting on them to do so is... unwise. Letting a vaccine out before it is vetted is doing exactly what the anti-vaxxers fear.
And on the heels of the FDA prematurely (seemingly) endorsing the plasma treatment (which the head then backpedaled from very fast!), everything they do looks suspicious to honest brokers - I exclude you from that.
And since I
predicted that we would get an announcement of a vaccine prior to the election before anybody was even discussing Phase 3 trials, I am more, not less skeptical. Same as the announcements about the Russian vaccine approvals - which less than shockingly did not mean they were ready. It meant they were ready for Phase 3 trials.
If Fauci is ready to stand by a vaccine release to the public, I will be ready to take it. If he is not, then not.
The order to be ready to distribute by October 1 ought to raise the hair on your arms. I get that it doesn't, but that it would if it had been Obama or Hillary or were to be Biden.