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Monstrous pharmaceutical giants like Merck, Pfizer, Roche, et al., tend to have huge commissions of researchers, scientists, biologists, etc, who, in addition to commissioning and politically managing their "products" (molecules, drugs, pathogens ...), must maintain Clinical Trials published in scientific journals. Any “product” can only advance to the next phase only when the FDA, the government, and many heavy scientific committees agree that the “product” can do so.
That said, and sorry if tldr, the chances of a vaccine being approved and sold with potential harm to millions of people is very, very low. In this case (COVID vaccine), they realized it was dangerous in phase 3 (clinical trials); a stage that usually takes a group of about 1,000 patients and that ideally should last UP TO 3 YEARS. That is the time it takes for a “product” to prove that it is not harmful, or that it is harmful only to the extent required by the FDA.
In any case, the only one responsible for a vaccine passing phase 3 and being sold to healthcare providers, even if not only hazardous, but even deadly, will be the President of the country which allows that phase 3 departure.
- Sorry, I was wrong. Not “the president of the country...” but Trump. “The FDA is led by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs, appointed by the President“..maquito