I listened to #BunkerbitchakaDJT give his COVID-19 press conference today. I don’t know about you but I found one part of it extremely alarming.
Trump talked about the progress towards developing a vaccine. He said that early results are extremely promising. He went on to say that today the federal government had reached an agreement with I believe Pfizer to produce 500 million doses once they clinical trials were completed.
By way of explanation I have no background in drug production. I have however significant exposure to the clinical trial process. I worked extensively with Parke-Davis in streamlining the process used for submitting new drug applications.
The clinical trial process is long and time consuming. It is such because not only does a drug a drug manufacturer want to have significant evidence that a drug works but also what any adverse indications there may be associated with use of the drug. When the POTUS says that we are only months away from a drug for mass distribution I would imagine that there are clinicians all over the world cringing. To say that any drug company could go from developing a new drug to bringing it to market in less than a year stretches the imagination.
Often times with a new drug the identification of an adverse impact is the most time consuming part of a clinical trial. Rushing a drug to market based on political expediency would be the worst possible thing that we could do.
We’ve already seen the damage that one irresponsible individual can heap on a nation when his interest outweigh those of the populace.
I want to see an answer for this virus as much as anyone else but I want it to be a proven product not an experiment on hundreds of millions of people. Ladies and gentlemen I’m concerned.
THINK!!
EYES WIDE OPEN!!!
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