Australian Professor and vaccine developer Nikolai Petrovsky is feeling very uncomfortable

3 years ago
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Full transcript:
"Because I'm passionate about vaccines, obviously it's hard when I have to say that as a vaccine developer, I am not fully confident about what's happened over the last 18 months and I'm not the only vaccine developer in the world who is extremely uncomfortable right now. As I say, that's really hard to say, because it could misconstrued, but it's a fact. We have a situation where we have some very new technologies in their infancy, and that is the mRNA vaccine and the adenoviral vector vaccines, which are the only that you're being forced to have or certainly some of are being forced to have to remain in employment.

"The question around, Well what level of confidence do we have that they have been through the usual process which is usually 10 to 15 years of rigorous testing in thousands of people? Now those thousands of people accept the risk, because they're in a clinical trial. They're given a very extensive warning -- this could kill you, this could maim you -- and they still sign up and agree to that process. Then they are followed for 5, 10, 15 years and if they survive and there are no terrible occurrences, then regulators will look at all of that data and approve the product.

"Now that hasn't happened in this situation, which is really a first. We all have to sit back and say, Should then everyone who gets these vaccines be signing an informed consent form as if they're in a clinical trial? My personal perspective is, first [do] no harm and two the principles of informed consent."

Source: https://twitter.com/abirballan/status/1456906825761267715

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