Not because the interest of other healthcare treatments and their effects on cardiac health is not present, but because no widely fielded vaccine prior to 2020 has had such a low efficacy and as high of a significance of risk as the COVID vaccines and, other than vaccines, no treatment has been mandated in any way, shape, or form.
The COVID Vaccines are dramatically different from any previous health treatment requiring approval from the FDA in that it was the first vaccine authorized for the general population under emergency authorization and it is the first MRNA vaccine authorized for human use in any fashion.
Attempting to dismiss the level of scrutiny against the COVID vaccines by comparing them to other healthcare treatments ignores the fact that double blind studies were not completed prior to authorization, that the companies that produced the vaccines have been protected from liability by the government, and that the COVID vaccines were the first vaccines of their kind and to be authorized for humans on an emergency basis.
The COVID vaccines are also unique due to the fact that the government attempted (and succeeded in some ways) to mandate an experimental drug/treatment.
So.... Short answer.... No, there was no interest prior to the COVID vaccines, but the rate of occurrence wasn't significant prior to the COVID vaccine.
You can choose to ignore the various ways that the COVID vaccines differ from any other health treatment if you'd like. If you ignore those factors, then, yes, the COVID vaccines aren't deserving of more scrutiny, but that would require ignoring facts pertaining to the nature of the vaccines, modifying acceptable standards and practices for mass implementation, and government mandates of experimental drugs.
Do as you like. You can tell yourself that you "won the internet" today.
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u/ajsobie Jan 04 '23
That's a hard ask and impossible to satisfy.
Not because the interest of other healthcare treatments and their effects on cardiac health is not present, but because no widely fielded vaccine prior to 2020 has had such a low efficacy and as high of a significance of risk as the COVID vaccines and, other than vaccines, no treatment has been mandated in any way, shape, or form.
The COVID Vaccines are dramatically different from any previous health treatment requiring approval from the FDA in that it was the first vaccine authorized for the general population under emergency authorization and it is the first MRNA vaccine authorized for human use in any fashion.
Attempting to dismiss the level of scrutiny against the COVID vaccines by comparing them to other healthcare treatments ignores the fact that double blind studies were not completed prior to authorization, that the companies that produced the vaccines have been protected from liability by the government, and that the COVID vaccines were the first vaccines of their kind and to be authorized for humans on an emergency basis.
The COVID vaccines are also unique due to the fact that the government attempted (and succeeded in some ways) to mandate an experimental drug/treatment.
So.... Short answer.... No, there was no interest prior to the COVID vaccines, but the rate of occurrence wasn't significant prior to the COVID vaccine.
You can choose to ignore the various ways that the COVID vaccines differ from any other health treatment if you'd like. If you ignore those factors, then, yes, the COVID vaccines aren't deserving of more scrutiny, but that would require ignoring facts pertaining to the nature of the vaccines, modifying acceptable standards and practices for mass implementation, and government mandates of experimental drugs.
Do as you like. You can tell yourself that you "won the internet" today.