Data Driven

Dr. Fauci on Face the Nation:

“But if they get up and really aim their bullets at Tony Fauci, well people can recognize that there’s a person there, so it’s easy to criticize, but they’re really criticizing science because I represent science.“

There is science behind the vaccine. The FDA has the data and documents used to get the Covid vaccines approved in 108 days. But they want to keep them under wraps for a little longer…

(Reuters) – Freedom of Information Act requests are rarely speedy, but when a group of scientists asked the federal government to share the data it relied upon in licensing Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, the response went beyond typical bureaucratic foot-dragging.
As in 55 years beyond.

Those scientists/plaintiffs do not seem to be a group of lunatic anti vaxers either:

The plaintiffs, a group of more than 30 professors and scientists from universities including Yale, Harvard, UCLA and Brown, filed suit in September in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, seeking expedited access to the records. They say that releasing the information could help reassure vaccine skeptics that the shot is indeed “safe and effective and, thus, increase confidence in the Pfizer vaccine.”

The article goes on to state that FDA cannot just press ‘send’ and release all hundreds of thousands of pages of vaccine related documents. Trade secrets and personal information about subjects in the trials must be redacted. Fair enough. But 55 years does seem like a bit of a stretch.

Every day on the radio I hear multiple commercials from various government health agencies assuring me that vaccines are safe and effective. The PSA’s are mostly upbeat with a kind of undertone of ‘we’re all in this together’ so get a jab for yourself and the ones you love. All well and good. I have done so, as soon as I could according to “My Turn, California”.

But shouldn’t these same officials want to get that ‘science’ and the data behind it out in the open as quickly as possible so people would have confidence that getting vaccinated is a good decision? The reticence to release makes me wonder what is really in the numbers. I don’t know. Even if the numbers are released I’m not competent to interpret them. But there are scientists and physicians who are. Let them have a look!

Dr. Fauci claims he represents science. If so he should get on a crusade to let everyone see the ‘science’ and not take 55 years to do it.