FDA to approve redesigned Covid boosters without requiring data

This is ridiculous, we&#x27;re using BA.1 clinical data to approve BA.4 and BA.5 shots that treat a different strain.<p>Why not just use the original clinical trial data and say the shots are 95% effective like before? Everyone knows how well that turned out.<p>Lets not mince words here: we&#x27;re going down the path of giving out a completely untested and unverified vaccine.

And, to top it off, the odds of them being effective on the strains that are around by the time they are released are miniscule. Covid mutates way too fast for this approach.

The clear solution here is to not have a Boolean &#x27;is it approved&#x27; flag, but instead approve a set number of doses.<p>Ie. We approve 1000 doses with no data. 100,000 doses with basic safety data, and 100,000,000 doses with safety and efficiecy data.