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Comment by dekhn

7 hours ago

What's the plan in China for when one of these expedited treatments has a terrible side effect?

The FDA's slowness is about maintaining a low level of risk because the reputation cost of a really bad incident is huge.

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doomslayer999  6 hours ago

Well, I'm no ethicist, but I don't think they really care. They'll catalog the results and try again.

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