Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast?

salonium_ 31 points 79 comments June 26, 2026
www.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog · View on Hacker News

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add-sub-mul-div

Shouldn't we expect that in an emergency we cut through red tape, reprioritize, etc? Isn't government inefficiency one of the major complaints of the types who call the vaccine "rushed"? If that was ever a good faith argument they should have seen this as a win!

techteach00

There are benefits and costs associated with fast tracking drugs to treat a pandemic. That should be the debates starting point.

BugsJustFindMe

One wonders why this was flagged. It appears to be a high quality and non-combative analysis of how we were able to advance vaccine development so quickly without losing safety or efficacy?

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