People underestimate the potential damage if trump rushes out a vaccine for politics. If the testing is not finished, it will be impossible to ever get volunteers to restart testing. We will have one mass clinical trial performed on the American public because a sociopath....1

...stupidly thinks it will help in his re-election. We will be forced to reject standards that kept the thalidomide disaster out of the US, and instead depend on foreign testing with different standards and different rules - which also might not be finished. But the disaster...2

...wont stop there. This is not stuff Americans readily understand. They don’t know what stages of clinical trials mean, what FDA approval means until now. All they’ll know if that the FDA said go ahead and the vaccine is available. If the unpredictable consequences are bad...3

...people won’t trust the @US_FDA again, because who will know if the agency was acting for science or politics on ANY drug approval. Would you participate in a future clinical trial of a drug knowing that it could be short circuited if the White House wants it to be? Would....

...you take a new drug without being sure if someone in government pushed it through because of some personal benefit? The drug industry @PhRMA @AccessibleMeds would be crippled forever because no American would know if our drug approval system has become corrupt & detached...4

...from science and instead locked into politics. And what about participating in a randomize controlled clinical trial - meaning that you might not get the test med - if you knew that politicians could just force it public so you wouldn’t need to worry about getting placebo ...5

...or existing best treatment. Why be part of a study where you don’t get the med when you can just call your senator? This is what happened with breast cancer treatments, when the theory that bone marrow transplants worked was in vogue. Trials couldn’t fill because everyone...6

...knew that they could get the treatment with political pull. So a decade was wasted on a treatment that didn’t work because politicians got involved. But that was a procedure, not a drug. If our government allows poorly tested vaccine out, Trumps narcissistic incompetence...7

...will undermine and potentially destroy our ability to test and approve drugs. This is about far more than a vaccine or an election. This is about the integrity of drug testing system. And our long term ability to perform clinical trials.

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