04-03-2021, 06:10 AM
davester wrote:
[quote=Lemon Drop]Bless those folks who went first, the trial volunteers. 21st century heroes.
Oh please! Drug trials with paid volunteers happen all the time and mRNA vaccines were invented and used on people prior to Covid so the safety risks were minimal. Those people are not heroes. You might have called them heroes if they participated in a challenge trial (i.e. were deliberately infected with the virus) but that never happened.
None of those prior mRNA vaccines ever made to approved status, so saying the safety risks were "minimal" is overstating things a bit. The results for everything before the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines were poor, with some very serious side effects in some of the trials of those previous vaccines.