| ▲ | UniverseHacker 5 days ago | |
It made sense to me- they made a risk vs benefit decision under high uncertainty, factoring in the massive harm that the ongoing pandemic was already causing. There had already been 12 years of human clinical trials for other mRNA vaccines, and they still did extensive clinical trials for the new covid vaccine before rolling it out. In hindsight they were exactly right- and they saved at least tens of million of lives by acting quickly[1]. | ||