I think this vaccine will turn a lot of people into anti-vaxxers. I'm a big believer overall, but when I see how they approved these vaccines which don't begin to make sense I'm starting to doubt this whole process. Impossible to have necessary research on this after 3-4 months. shouldn't they know long term side effects? shouldn't they know first what percentage this will actually help or what percentage will have an allergic reaction?
Hence it's EUA... There is a reason the FDA isn't approving it as a regular vaccine.
I suppose they weigh 280,000 deaths with likelihood of the vaccine causing more or less hard. Then decide to what degree etc it would be worth approving something and this met that much lower standard to get EUA.
Even if this does come out to have terrible side effects it'll be sad to see people turn anti-vax considering the FDA isn't claiming or even authorizing this as a normal vaccine like the others.
It's that point where people turn off their logic and just use emotions to decide what they'll do, which causes people to equate things and believe nonsense and turn anti-vax. Which I agree, may happen here.
(Postmarketing surveillance is a huge factor when it comes to what we know about drugs, and with this getting such a massive usage before any Postmarketing surveillance, it obviously raises the likelihood of risk and side effects, I mean obviously 40k people is a tiny sample size compared to how many people will be getting the vaccine.)