{"id":4029,"date":"2020-12-17T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4029"},"modified":"2020-12-17T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2020-12-17T16:11:26","slug":"the-fda-continues-to-drag-its-feet-on-vaccine-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=4029","title":{"rendered":"The FDA Continues To Drag Its Feet on Vaccine Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;the FDA&#8217;s approval is coming nearly two weeks after British regulators greenlighted the same vaccine, and almost a month since Pfizer\/BioNTech submitted its final data for the agency to review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Had the FDA acted more swiftly\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/covid-19-vaccinations-in-the-u-s-slated-to-begin-monday-11607941806?mod=hp_lead_pos1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">say by bumping up<\/a>&nbsp;the December 10 meeting it held to recommend approval of the Pfizer vaccine\u2014Monday&#8217;s good news could have arrived a few weeks earlier. Meanwhile, the advisory committee tasked with evaluating another vaccine developed by Moderna is not set to meet until Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Given the slow rollout of these vaccines (slow, at least, when considered against the number of people needing to be vaccinated), it&#8217;s easy to think that the delay of a few days or weeks isn&#8217;t all that consequential.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not so, says George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok, who deploys some back-of-the-envelope math to argue that a few thousand people will die for every day the FDA dawdles in approving new vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9FNmigDsFo\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/15\/the-fda-continues-to-drag-its-feet-on-vaccine-approval\/\">The FDA Continues To Drag Its Feet on Vaccine Approval<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;The FDA Continues To Drag Its Feet on Vaccine Approval&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/12\/15\/the-fda-continues-to-drag-its-feet-on-vaccine-approval\/embed\/#?secret=XszHIy0q1G#?secret=9FNmigDsFo\" data-secret=\"9FNmigDsFo\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;the FDA&#8217;s approval is coming nearly two weeks after British regulators greenlighted the same vaccine, and almost a month since Pfizer\/BioNTech submitted its final data for the agency to review.<\/p>\n<p>Had the FDA acted more swiftly\u2014say by bumping up the December 10 meeting it held to recommend approval of the Pfizer vaccine\u2014Monday&#8217;s good news could have arrived a few weeks earlier. Meanwhile, the advisory committee tasked with evaluating another vaccine developed by Moderna is not set to meet until Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Given the slow rollout of these vaccines (slow, at least, when considered against the number of people needing to be vaccinated), it&#8217;s easy to think that the delay of a few days or weeks isn&#8217;t all that consequential.<\/p>\n<p>Not so, says George Mason University economist Alex Tabarrok, who deploys some back-of-the-envelope math to argue that a few thousand people will die for every day the FDA dawdles in approving new vaccines.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[588,409,483,621,925],"class_list":["post-4029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-corona","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-fda","tag-vaccine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4029"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4030,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4029\/revisions\/4030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}