From the article, it’s probably going to be actively harmful:
The Trump administration plans to impose a new testing requirement for new vaccines — a demand that could delay the availability of the next round of COVID-19 vaccines and complicate the approval of other vaccines.
Additionally, this all but insures people will catch diseases - potentially fatal diseases like COVID - when they don’t need to because they’ll be given a placebo:
In addition, experts say that giving someone a placebo to protect them against a potentially deadly disease when an effective vaccine already exists would be unethical.
“Are they really planning on doing a placebo-controlled trial where a certain group of people are not given that vaccine, knowing that the virus can cause infection and disease, including serious disease in anyone? Anyone can be felled by this virus,” Offit says. “So it’s not an ethical trial.”
Great point. Someone else noted it’s also unethical to give a placebo to someone who then thinks they’re protected. So great job, leatherface. We need to put the “Health” in your job title in very heavy scare quotes.
Edit: You added in that exact same thing right after I posted the reply. Nice.
Sigh.
It’s unnecessary. It’s stupid.
But at least it’s not actively harmful, I guess.Edit: Nope, actually, it definitely is.
From the article, it’s probably going to be actively harmful:
Additionally, this all but insures people will catch diseases - potentially fatal diseases like COVID - when they don’t need to because they’ll be given a placebo:
Great point. Someone else noted it’s also unethical to give a placebo to someone who then thinks they’re protected. So great job, leatherface. We need to put the “Health” in your job title in very heavy scare quotes.
Edit: You added in that exact same thing right after I posted the reply. Nice.
Yes, sorry for the shadow edit - I was having trouble getting my app to copy the text.
No worries, I do that all the time.