The plans amount to an extraordinary flex of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s power as health secretary to make decisions ordinarily left to career scientists at the Food and Drug Administration.
    • silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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      3 days ago

      Probably not. They’re by design only accepting a few thousand people, and he wants half of them to get a placebo. Probably easier to go to Mexico or Canada to just get the vaccine

      • RedWeasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Well I did use quotes. “Sorry, we messed up the placebo and everyone got the vaccine. We will need to redo the study next fall”