"On October 22 2020, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research’s (CBER), Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) will meet in open session, to discuss, in general, the development, authorization and/or licensure of vaccines to prevent COVID-19"
The FDA advisory cmte doesn't seem keen to approve an EUA pre-election:
"FDA expects to convene an open session of FDA’s VRBPAC prior to the issuance of any EUA for a COVID-19 vaccine, to discuss whether the available safety and effectiveness data support authorization of an EUA"
I outlined the issues in a thread as well, which has details if you are interested, 100% consistent with @hausfath@Peters_Glen letter (which is behind a paywall)
Atlas staff position in the White House carries the title "Special Advisor to the President"
Such positions date to Reorganization Act of 1939 which created the Executive Office of the President (aka The West Wing) giving the prez new powers to staff
I'm still amazed that we are using college football players as study subjects & (apparently) ignoring research ethics and corporate research protocols applied everywhere else on campus 10news.com/news/local-new…
OK, I'll ask
What happens if we find out that the answer to the research question posed below is, no or not much?
Do we say, "well at least we got some games in, thanks for participating in our study"
I get it that universities (and Athletic departments) don't like these sorts of questions
But it is obvious that Quidel views PAC-12 football as a clinical experiment to perfect tests in order to secure FDA approval of their proprietary technology
Really insightful new essay by Simon Robertson on issues raised by the IPCC dual roles in both assessing and producing climate research onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.100…
Under indicators of the @UN Sustainable Development Goals the world is making progress with respect to disasters - but there is no guarantee that it will continue, sustained effort is needed
Vulnerability has decreased globally:
"Results show a clear decreasing trend in both human & economic vulnerability, with global average mortality & economic loss rates that have dropped by 6.5 and nearly 5 times, respectively, from 1980–1989 to 2007–2016" sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
Back in 2007, in its annual report CRED/EM-DAT warned about using pre-2000 data to say anything about climate change, because of the massive increasing in reporting of disasters around the world.