This "how did the vaccines get approved so quickly" thing has to be one of the most asked- and- answered questions of the entire pandemic. The basic delivery platform for the vaccines had already been in human trials before the pandemic. We've also been doing rapid development of vaccines for many, many years to combat things like influenza. Coronaviruses had already been well studied, and we had dry-runs for vaccine design with SARS and MERS.
You can just do a Google search to read about 1,000 articles about how the vaccines got approved as quickly as they did. You don't need to ask your friend who works at Gilead. Not for nothing: their clinical trials would probably go a lot faster with a global pandemic lighting a fire under them.
We've administered these vaccines to almost four billion people. "COVID vaccines are dangerous" has become an extraordinary claim, demanding extraordinary evidence. There are people who sincerely believe that aspirin is dangerous, and yeast, and "mycotoxins" on coffee beans, and on and on. We're not required to take these arguments seriously on faith.
You can just do a Google search to read about 1,000 articles about how the vaccines got approved as quickly as they did. You don't need to ask your friend who works at Gilead. Not for nothing: their clinical trials would probably go a lot faster with a global pandemic lighting a fire under them.
We've administered these vaccines to almost four billion people. "COVID vaccines are dangerous" has become an extraordinary claim, demanding extraordinary evidence. There are people who sincerely believe that aspirin is dangerous, and yeast, and "mycotoxins" on coffee beans, and on and on. We're not required to take these arguments seriously on faith.