Submitted by Esc_ape_artist t3_11asu19 in askscience
Chemputer t1_j9xmjgs wrote
Reply to comment by ThellraAK in Does the common flu vaccine offer any buffer against H5N1 (Bird Flu)? by Esc_ape_artist
Pretty much. It's one thing if you are confident enough in your own work to dose yourself, but you definitely want to know the efficacy and safety profile before you dose millions of people with it, so we do kinda need the regulatory stuff, even in a pandemic we still had essentially the bare necessities of it. I'm convinced that it was slower than it could've been at "bare necessity" speed because they were also proving the safety and efficacy of mRNA vaccines for the first time, so in the future we wouldn't need to go as slow.
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