A Tale of Eroded Standards
There used to be standards, or maybe an illusion of standards, but even the illusion has died from (or with) COVID.
#1. Eight mice
As I am sure you’ve heard, the FDA authorized Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech Bivalent COVID-19 Vaccines, based on a single failed study that involved eight mice.
“The bivalent vaccines, which we will also refer to as “updated boosters,” contain two messenger RNA (mRNA) components of SARS-CoV-2 virus, one of the original strain of SARS-CoV-2 and the other one in common between the BA.4 and BA.5 lineages of the omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2.”
Their confidence in the product is based on an inflated interpretation of data from eight poor rodents and, according to them, also on looking at several hundred human participants who had previously received three doses of the respective mystery potion and then took either an updated mystery potion or a regular mystery potion that contained mRNA for … wait for …
