The best way forward in the COVID-19 fight is for the FDA to give full approval to the vaccines.

[Yavin4]

This would allow businesses, health insurance companies, schools, our military, and other organizations to mandate that the vaccines be taken. That would push us over the threshold needed for herd immunity. The FDA has plenty of data to make this decision.

Anthony Fauci said on Sunday that the FDA giving Covid vaccines full approval is “only a technical issue” and that the hundreds of millions of people across the world who have been vaccinated serve as evidence that “the effectiveness and the safety of the vaccines are very high.”

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/11/fauci-vaccines-covid-approval-fda-499158

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/asa-hutchinson-covid-19-vaccines-fda-face-the-nation/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I agree! The FDA needs to give Full Approval to the vaccines!

We need to remove that as a dodge for those who won't accept the provisional status the vaccines currently have.

Enough is enough!

[Ms. Toad]

2. There's a process.

If we start side-stepping the process it may result in more entities requiring vaccination, but it will make people less confident that it was a scientific, rather than political, approval. Remember how skeptical some here were of the vaccine when Trump started talking about "Warp Speed"? The same thing will happen if we "warp speed" the approval process from the other side.

[Yavin4]

3. Sorry, but nothing will ever appease the conspiracy minded.

Whether we wait the full six months, or a year, or ten years for approval, they will still cry about the process.

Besides, their "opinion" is meaningless here. What is important here is to give businesses, schools, health insurance companies, etc. the tool they need to mandate the vaccine. People will still have the option to not get it, but it will come with severe costs, e.g. higher insurance premiums.

This is the only way forward.

[Ms. Toad]

11. Disregarding the process will create doubt not only among the skeptics -

but also among those of us who rely on the process to provide a reasonable amount of protection.

Both Moderna and Pfizer have already requested regular approval. The process will take closer to 6 months than 10 years.

Since "they" won't trust it, regardless of when it arrives, it is irresponsible to undercut the process which the rest of us do rely on.

[dalton99a]

4. No shit. 334,151,648 doses administered in the U.S.

Just do it.

[Scrivener7]

5. I disagree. That would be the quickest way to begin the process of doing away with the

FDA or seriously watering down its effectiveness. And, flawed as it is, that would be a disaster.

This is an emergency. We bypassed some parts of the approval process because it is an emergency. That doesn't mean the approval process should be changed.

[Voltaire2]

6. It should be done following the process.

Not the politics. These are the technical issues fauci is referring to.

[boston bean]

7. How is wanting to save lives political.

This is not political.

[fescuerescue]

10. You are confusing the motive with the process

The motive is a good one. Save lives. The process is testing and monitoring.

If you change the process because of the motive, then it becomes political.

[boston bean]

12. I don't think so.

The process would be the same. Why does it have to be the same length of time? It doesn’t. Over 300M does have been given to Americans. Move along with it already.

Never before have we had this type of rollout. So, why doesn’t if follow it be done quicker. That is not political. It’s common sense.

[fescuerescue]

15. Most of the process isn't time bound. It procedure bound

It just happens that the procedures take ALOT of time.

It's already moving along at a 10 to 30 times pace. If this weren't a pandemic, we wouldn't see public rollout till the 2025 or 2030.

I think everyone appreciates the urgency. But there becomes an upper limit at how fast we can move from point A to Point B.

I'm sure if it could be done faster, Biden would do it.

[Yavin4]

16. And in the meantime, thousands will die and new variants will be discovered. Is that okay with you?

Also, no, the unvaccinated won't wear masks and quarantine, and their governors won't pass any mask mandates into law. So that avenue is closed.

[fescuerescue]

17. What difference does it make?

Whats okay with me is irrelevant.

This is a facts discussion. I do not have the power to change the facts to suit my wishes.

But isn't it better to understand whats going on, instead of just being sad about it?

I'm quite satisfied that President Biden is moving as fast as humanly possible. For those who feel differently they should write him a letter and explain what he's doing wrong.

[Binkie The Clown]

8. The right would just accuse the FDA of being part of the conspiracy.

The only cure for stupidity is .....
Oh wait. There is no cure for stupidity.

[fescuerescue]

9. Then it would just be seen a political approval

foley for the purpose of getting more people take it.

No. It needs to continue to follow the scientific route. Not the political route.

[boston bean]

13. The process is the same. The time it takes could be different. They got over 300M guinea pigs just

In the US. Come on. Get a a move on.

[fescuerescue]

14. It usually takes YEARS

to get anything approved.

This time is already different.

[lagomorph777]

18. I know a vaccine-hesitant person who states that as their main concern.

Let's get it done. I don't think any drug has ever been so widely tested before.