One can be skeptical of the FDA without being a conspiracy nut. Unquestioning trust is what one does when one is on a religious faith journey. It is not appropriate when considering the actions of a government agency. The FDA is not without fault nor immune from political considerations. For the FDA to not grant full approval would make the FDA look incompetent for having granted emergency approval. Not something government agencies are prone to do to themselves. Granting full approval doesn't change the effectiveness of the vaccine nor remove any side effects for those likely to encounter such side effects. The vaccine remains exactly the same as it was prior to full approval. I did not wait for some government agency to give full approval before being vaccinated. I decided to accept the expert opinion that the risk of getting Covid and having a bad outcome from it was much higher then the the risk of the vaccine having a bad outcome . At the time, the most popular scientific opinion seemed to suggest that the vaccine would provide over 90 percent protection from infection. That has turned out to be a bit incorrect but the evidence still seems to suggest that outcomes from infection for the vaccinated are less severe. So I remain satisfied that I did the correct thing in getting vaccinated. If I thought that a President that was untrustworthy was responsible for a vaccine being rushed through the process of approval, why would I not be skeptical of that approval process and those that complied with the rushing of that approval? I would expect those that were the most obsessed with disgust of Trump would be the most skeptical of the vaccines that he had caused to be fast tracked.
The FDA has approved partially hydrogenated oils that cause heart attacks. The FDA routinely approves drugs that
injure and kill people, and after enough product is sold and the lawsuits begin rolling in, takes them off the market. Dozens of drugs have been removed from the market.
The FDA began approving cigarettes, even saying that Doctors recommended them, back in the 30's. The FDA STILL approves tobacco use and approved vaping as well, very dangerous to young people. " Soon after e-cigarettes debuted in Europe in 2006, tobacco companies began investing heavily in vaping. The Food and Drug Administration noted in 2018 that vaping was increasing at an alarming rate among teens, raising concern that more young people were becoming addicted to nicotine. In 2019, six deaths and hundreds of cases of vaping-related lung illness were reported. By September, 2019, the U.S. Health Secretary Alex Azar said the FDA planned to take flavored e-cigarettes off the market."
Still being sold 2 years later.
So yeah, the idea that the FDA is to be trusted is specious at best.
..."Yale School of Medicine found that nearly a third of those approved from 2001 through 2010 had
major safety issues years after the medications were made widely available to patients.
Seventy-one of the 222 drugs approved in the first decade of the millennium were withdrawn, required a "black box" warning on side effects or warranted a safety announcement about new risks, Dr. Joseph Ross, an associate professor of medicine at Yale School of Medicine, and colleagues reported in
JAMA on Tuesday. The study included safety actions through Feb. 28.
"While the administration pushes for less regulation and faster approvals, those decisions have consequences," Ross says.
The Yale researchers' previous studies concluded that the FDA approves drugs faster than its counterpart agency in Europe does and that the majority of pivotal trials in drug approvals involved fewer than 1,000 patients and lasted six months or less."
One-Third Of New Drugs Had Safety Problems After FDA Approval
