Is the Pfizer Covid-19 being rushed? Here's the best answer I read on Quora so far.
"You bet ya it's being rushed. Every one of the 130 odd vaccine developments are being pushed through at a rate that 12 months ago would have been considered impossible to achieve.
However, the truncated development time has largely been achieved by huge increases in the allocation of resources; man, machine, money, as well as carefully considered streamlining of developmental methods.
This doesn't mean the processes haven't cut some corners.
I read with interest answers to this question that insist no compromises to safety have taken place. This is simply untrue, and does nothing to assure people already sceptical about the vaccine, even the existence of Covid19, that they are getting the full unadulted story.
A notable and inarguable example is the granting by various governments of the emergency use of vaccines before the full approval processes can be completed.
This isn't the normal procedure and is not how new drugs are adopted for use. This shortcut inevitably presents some risk, and we need to acknowledge this and be transparent about it.
What we definately shouldn't be doing is ignoring or hiding this easily identified fact from people who need to be convinced that nothing is being hidden from them.
However, what also needs to be said is this risk is clearly and empirically understood, and when weighed up against the equally well understood devastating health risks, deaths, medical infrastructure overload and it's cascading effects and the economic turmoil that Covid 19 is wreaking on our global society, there is an overwhelming argument in favour of accepting these closely monitored and managed risks.
Mankind is facing its greatest existential threat since WWII. When faced with such an enormous challenge we have to accept that our norms and conventions are luxuries that cannot be entirely preserved. We have to be bold. We have to take risks. We simply have to accept that these are not normal times and they demand that we take extraordinary measures.
We also have to understand that this is not a basis for the outrageous claims by the anti-vaxers to boycott the covid 19 vaccine. This notion that anything short of an absolute 100% guarantee of safety and effectiveness of any vaccine means it must be rejected wholesale is monumentally ludicrous. And it's incredibly dangerous, and those making this claim are being mischievous at best, and often quite malicious As a scare tactic, it has the potential to thwart the global effort to eradicate Covid 19, and lead to the continuing death and destruction we are suffering at the moment.
These vaccines, as in life, do not come with absolute guarantees. On the other hand, as an alternative outcome, death is an absolute."