{"id":5015,"date":"2020-12-09T21:45:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T05:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/?p=5015"},"modified":"2020-12-10T10:55:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:55:34","slug":"why-a-speedy-covid-19-vaccine-does-not-mean-a-riskier-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/why-a-speedy-covid-19-vaccine-does-not-mean-a-riskier-vaccine\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 vaccines: Why Speedy Development Does Not Mean Greater Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"5015\" class=\"elementor elementor-5015\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-67f06ccd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"67f06ccd\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;_ha_eqh_enable&quot;:false}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-419f95a8\" data-id=\"419f95a8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-441fde1c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"441fde1c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/COVID_vaccine_shutterstock-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\">The prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine before the end of 2020 seemed preposterous just a few months ago. Yet, here we are, getting ready to roll up our sleeves.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>What are we to make of this \u201crushed\u201d vaccine? Could it really be as safe as those that took years to develop?<\/p>\n<p>The short answer is yes.<\/p>\n<p>COVID-19 vaccines are required to clear all the same hurdles as past vaccines in order to gain regulatory approval. Their compressed timelines&nbsp;do not&nbsp;reflect less rigorous testing; they reflect the fact that COVID-19 vaccine development was an \u201call hands on deck\u201d global priority.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s see what it takes to develop a vaccine, and how these steps were safely accelerated.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-selectable-paragraph=\"\">Read the full article on <a href=\"https:\/\/chanapdavis.medium.com\/why-a-rushed-vaccine-does-not-mean-a-riskier-one-19c5cb014b71?sk=c5f3f74bfdd89a804652d65049fbd7e6\">Medium<\/a><a>.<\/a><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prospect of a COVID-19 vaccine before the end of 2020 seemed preposterous just a few months ago. Yet, here we are, getting ready to roll up our sleeves.&nbsp; What are we to make of this \u201crushed\u201d vaccine? Could it really be as safe as those that took years to develop? The short answer is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,247],"tags":[245,246],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5015"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5024,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5015\/revisions\/5024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fueledbyscience.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}