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0 pointsraverbashing5y ago0 comments

> It is that it is an unknown side effect that did not come up in the original studies.

Well, obviously it didn't. Exactly because it is so rare

A clinical study with (I think) 30k people can't detect something that's 1 in a million case

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doikor5y ago· 2 in thread

Yes. And that is why when something like this pops up we stop giving out the treatment while we look at the new data and make the decision.

njarboe5y ago

So we stop giving out treatment and an extra 1000-10000(?) people die and we delay the economy getting back on track for a week or two with the delay. No skin off the FDA bureaucrats teeth, but they are hurting a lot of people with this decision.

doikor5y ago

We don't know any of that. What if it ends up killing more than that?

> FDA bureaucrats

You mean doctors. These decisions are done by doctors as they should be. The current (acting) head of FDA is a physician too.

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