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**Chris** · 07-04-2021, 23:31

He doesn’t understand what they thought they were doing ... well, they were doing exactly what they do with every drug that starts to produce post-marketing data. The only problem is that in this case there’s extreme scrutiny of the whole process, which is understandable and unavoidable under the circumstances. The only slightly different line they could have taken would be to advise alternative vaccines without actually acknowledging that there’s a likely risk factor with the Ox-AZ vaccine but again, given the level of scrutiny this whole process is under, that probably wouldn’t have flown - it would just have looked like a fudge, which of course it would have been.

Jonathan Van Tam’s presentation this afternoon was erudite, balanced and very reassuring.

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Chris Trollsplatter Cable Forum Team Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 36,907	Re: Coronavirus He doesn’t understand what they thought they were doing ... well, they were doing exactly what they do with every drug that starts to produce post-marketing data. The only problem is that in this case there’s extreme scrutiny of the whole process, which is understandable and unavoidable under the circumstances. The only slightly different line they could have taken would be to advise alternative vaccines without actually acknowledging that there’s a likely risk factor with the Ox-AZ vaccine but again, given the level of scrutiny this whole process is under, that probably wouldn’t have flown - it would just have looked like a fudge, which of course it would have been. Jonathan Van Tam’s presentation this afternoon was erudite, balanced and very reassuring.