As a news junkie, I hear a great push to fast track a vaccine. I understand why the rush and why the administration wants to fast track it, and why so many experts want more testing on human subjects before massive use. I, and they, remember other fast tracked vaccines and drugs.

The first polio vaccine by Dr. Jonas Sauk was conducted on kids from orphanages. It was successful–for a while. Before it went out to many others, they found that every one of orphans had a severe case of polio. The vaccine was weakened, retested, and mass produced.

There is a reason not to fast track a vaccine and give it to millions. Some races, ethnics, age groups, compromised, and of course, pregnant react differently. Remember the last class’s experiment with a fast track sleeping pill called Thalidomide? It caused thousands of women to give birth to babies without arms and legs.

This is just two examples of fantastic blunders in which the FDA didn’t research drug company’s claims to their testing of human subjects. I believe the World needs vaccines so we can over populate Earth. As I talk with my senior citizen relatives around the country, none of us will be in the front of the lines.