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An interesting lecture from @VPrasadMDMPH . Starting at roughly the 12-minute mark, he talks about Pfizer changing the COVID-19 vaccine test protocol mid-trial so that success couldn't be announced prior to Election Day 2020. Prof. Prasad points out that this change did not yield superior statistical certainty and infers that the motivation was anti-Trump sentiment.
Prasad also highlights the 180-degree change in media coverage from fear of a poorly tested vaccine to absolute faith in a vaccine for which minimal testing was done. Separately, I'm not sure that I share Prasad's faith that earlier vaccine approval would have saved a lot of lives. The countries, such as Israel, that got vaccinated early do not have notably low rates of "excess deaths" over a 3-year period. Nor do countries with high vaccination rates have low excess death rates. I looked at the potential correlation in the following blog post: philip.greenspun.com/blog/2023/02/2…
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