> The covid vaccine I had to take to as a condition to travel and employment has been banned from the market for safety reasons.
Which one? If you're talking about the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, you should be gald to know that the suspension was short lived, and around April 2021 it was in the market again.
They stopped selling it in 2024, but that's because:
1. we are collectively burying our head in the sand about covid (in the UK it seems we don't even monitor the wastewater covid levels anymore)
2. there are a bunch of other vaccines available, and due to the earlier suspension, people trusted the other vaccines more (and thus it was struggling in the market)
> requested the voluntary withdrawal of the EUA for this vaccine. Janssen Biotech, Inc. informed the FDA that the last lots of the vaccine purchased by the U.S. Government have expired, there is no demand for new lots of the vaccine in the U.S., and they do not intend to update the strain composition of this vaccine to address emerging variants
I'm not well acquainted with practices in the pharmaceutical industry, so it looks a bit weird to me that they would request to withdraw authorisation. I suppose that it might be simpler for them to do so if they know that all remaining doses have expired, rather than risk lawsuits in case that someone might accidentally administer expired doses?
A pandemic and war have a lot in common. There's an information gap and an urgency of action needed, so people make the best decisions they can with the information they have at the time.
I didn't doubt history will show a lot of best-guesses based on available information were untrue. But I'd rather people take it seriously and follow the guidance of the folks who prepared for this kind of disaster than do what we did in the 1920s. Even with a knowledge gap and errors, it lengthened most people's lives to lock down, mask up, and get vaccinated.
You should be grateful that you've been able to get a vaccine when you could, and quit being so arrogant and know-it-all.
You typed 3 replies, and you didn't corroborate a single one of your posts, all the while projecting your ignorance onto others
You'd have a more sympathetic argument if you could talk about non-covid induced blood clots, that despite being reported didn't get accounted properly in statistics. I'm sure the numbers might be a bit worse than in official statistics, because of deficiencies in our covid19 first-line response, and in the lack of trust that people like you have in the medical establishment (which means that issues might go unreported, or dismissed if reported by cranks without evidence)
Which one? If you're talking about the Oxford-Astrazeneca vaccine, you should be gald to know that the suspension was short lived, and around April 2021 it was in the market again.
They stopped selling it in 2024, but that's because:
1. we are collectively burying our head in the sand about covid (in the UK it seems we don't even monitor the wastewater covid levels anymore)
2. there are a bunch of other vaccines available, and due to the earlier suspension, people trusted the other vaccines more (and thus it was struggling in the market)