No, 1000 times no. The amount of time it takes to get trials done depends on the number of events. Shingrix too years becyase in comparison to Covid-19 Shingles does not exist. The prevalence of the infection sped of the trials. It was not rushed in any way shape or form.
As a healthcare professional who supposedly cares about his/her patients well being, you should be supporting the widespread adoption of this vaccine. If you have data against it, bring it. If not Sit down and shut up, I want to eat in restaurants...
Are you kidding me? Of course the trials were rushed in the wrong way too. I am a healthcare professional too, and I tell them that the last times we did vaccine EUAs (Dengue and Anthrax), it blew up in the Fed's face for reasons you can read about. In the case of Dengue, it was kids and the FDA panel got overhauled after that.
You have to evaluate your lifestyle relative to risk, and make a decision. Time and personal circumstances matter. It may become a global recommendation in time, but not right now. The institutionalized (nursing home, uniformed in barracks or ships, prisoners) and the front line, it's a risky but necessary one where I actually think it's better to get it. The elderly with or without comorbidities, probably favors. But the random person on the street, it's a behavioral toxicity issue like flying with someone dying in flight from COVID. If you're going to take risks in public, do it, but if you're going to not take risks, wait through the winter to see real exposure post vaccination.
There's no way the effectiveness is going to stay 95% like efficacy given how small the trials and post-exposure with the evolving virus. It could be 0% if we didn't get a conserved region. We just don't know. But it is unconscionable to say what we don't know in effectiveness as we ourselves conflate with efficacy.
We seem to be conflating Emergency Authorization with Approval. Regulatory is taking a huge gamble with this, but the EUA was granted as the case morbidity and mortality rate is too high not to try.
As far as the HIV vaccine, why don't you ask Dr. Birx who presided over a career of failure on the subject? If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. But aside from HIV killing a bunch of people a certain party doesn't care about (which is arguably a major reason why we have an epidemic in the first place), it has never been given much love. Robert Redfield in an earlier Satanic incarnation, sentenced otherwise good soldiers into "hotels". If there is a Catholic afterlife that he believes in, I'm pretty sure where he's going.
It's our job not to mistake our motives for the patient's. Ask yourself whether your advice is what you want rather than what they need. Almost always, they are the same. But I find it hard to argue that at this stage, it's a universal recommendation like MMR or DTaP. If it passes into Approval, then yes. In the meantime, I'm glad we have enough volunteers.
