Fauci on Trump's Vaccine Boasts: No One's Seen the Data

[Nevilledog]

Link to tweet

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dr-anthony-fauci-on-donald-trumps-covid-19-vaccine-boasts-no-ones-seen-the-data

In recent weeks, President Donald Trump has boasted about his administration’s efforts to produce a safe COVID-19 vaccine while simultaneously declaring that the distribution of that vaccine to the American public would happen “very soon.”

But Trump has not seen the vaccine data.

In fact, no one in the administration has seen it. In an interview with The Daily Beast Monday evening, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the head of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there is only one individual who has access to the data that would show whether a vaccine is viable.

“These are blind placebo-controlled trials. The only ones who see the data intermittently is the safety data monitoring board…. a single unblinded statistician,” Fauci said. “Those data are not public data, no one can know what those data show. That person looks at the data and says, ‘OK, let's keep the trial going, we don't have enough data to make a decision.’ Or that person can look at the data and say, ‘You know, there really is a very strong signal of efficacy, let's make it known.’ We bring in the company, we tell the company, then the company can make up their mind, whether they want to use that data to go to the [Federal Drug Administration for approval].”

In other words, Fauci said, there is no way of knowing how the U.S. is faring in its development of a vaccine until a subset of statisticians decide it’s time for it to be known. The fact that the data is so closely held is part of what is supposed to build trust in the science community and within the administration that the vaccine was developed in a controlled environment without political influencesthe

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[soothsayer]

1. ...and no one's going to

[ProfessorGAC]

4. The Developers Are Pros

It would take a heck of a conspiracy to get them to consensus to release. Especially since science researchers are preponderantly liberal. (Not so much with engineers.)
They aren't going to risk their careers by being foolish about something so important.

[saidsimplesimon]

2. The orange beast can't read, is a liar

and will try to use any "real" vaccine knowledge to increase his wealth or self image.

[intrepidity]

3. It's SOP for Trump to claim access to secret intel

He figures everyone will believe it because he is president. I csn't count the number of times he has done this.

Finally, one time he couldn't possibly know -- it exposes all the other times he has used this tactic.