The problem is that most people don’t understand how complex and difficult it is to develop effective vaccines. If all humans were genetically identical, it would greatly simplify matters but that obviously isn’t the case and it is impossible to know how everyone will react to the vaccine. That is why they work with larger and larger samples during the testing process. At the population level, an effective vaccine has great value but there will be some fraction for which it won’t work and some hopefully small fraction for which it will cause harm. Naive Americans have been trained by the media to make decisions that they think can only benefit themselves and taking a chance on the vaccine to help others will not happen, especially for Republicans.
Hahn’s statement was false or misleading on two different levels.
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The 35% claim was not a reduction in mortality rate. CNBC reported that the Mayo Clinic study found that patients below age 80 who were not on a respirator and received plasma with a high level of antibodies within three days of diagnosis were about 35% more likely to survive another 30 days compared with patients who received plasma with a low level of antibodies.
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According to the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Hahn’s interpretation of the 35% reduction in mortality was widely disputed by scientists on Twitter, who used the same data from the Mayo Clinic to show that 3.2 people out of 100—not 35—would be saved by the administration of convalescent plasma. The difference is in relative versus absolute risk, with 35% being the percent improvement but, because the rate of those seeing improvement was so low—8.7% to 11.9%—the absolute reduction is much smaller.
Yup … it’s worthy .…
Already accomplished.
Gee, what hoppen? Did the kids say, “I’m ashamed to tell people you’re my dad?” Or are they older and just refused to let him see the grandkids, calling him a ‘bad influence?’
Definitely like that Truth and DISINFECTION Commission.
“I was just following orders…”, amiright?
What’s going on? They’re terrified minions of an irascible, mean, nasty boss who is not just indifferent, but actively hostile, to facts and science and integrity.
Hahn shat his bull at one of the DonaldBriefings™, remember. The boss was right there. Of course he couldn’t be honest under those circumstances. Just remember Dr. Birx sitting and listening in mute horror to the bleach-and-UV madness.
Or maybe Hahn saw the Titanic was sinking and didn’t want his rep to go down with it, no matter what Cheetolini and Navarro threatened.
“No ‘liar-for-hire’ stuff for THIS little boy!”
Example number, ??? (I lost count a while ago) of siding with tRump just to please him will ruin your reputation. How many people have to go through this before they start seeing it? Just ask Kristjen how things are going for her.
Do these trump “leading FDA scientists” know anything about blood typing at all?
You can’t stuff the genie of false promises back in the bottle, Stephen Hahn.
More like stoppering the bleach bottle after you’ve filled the punch-bowl
What’s wrong is those folk are living in abject fear. This is classic abusive relationship stuff played out in public. Trump is the controller and everyone else in his orbit is dominated so completely they cannot leave because it’s “all their fault” if they do. This is sickness on parade.
Navarro is trying to argue all this shit with Andrea Mitchell right now.
A big load of crap…with the cherry on top:
“Melania is the Jackie Kennedy of our time”
Almost puked.
Hmmmmm… What’s missing that negates the parallel…
We dream in drug development of something like a 35 percent mortality reduction,” the FDA official said. “This is a major advance in the treatment of patients. This is a major advance.”
No scientist worth his salt would ever confuse relative risk reduction vs. absolute risk reduction. That statement above was reckless and incorrect. If it was truly a “major advance”, it wouldn’t need an EUA, it would have been enthusiastically approved.
He’s trying to have it both ways. The time to have said something was at that Sunday evening press conference in front of Trump, if not even earlier.
I was looking at some the trials just this morning and they warn of some pretty bad side effects, including catching and possibly dying from COVID. The people who are volunteering (be it for altruistic or monetary reasons, or some combination of both) are risking health and possibly life for the greater good.
As someone who has actually worked in the field of viral diseases I can truthfully say that a good effective vaccine takes decades to refine. The first are usually horrible with bad side effects; and possibly not very effective. It takes time to refine the viral antigen to the point that causes the body to see this as bad. It looks like a booster type adjuvant will be needed as reinfections from Covid from of different strains are already appearing in the news.