Despite being a high-risk population, pregnant women are often excluded from vaccine trials, from priority access to therapeutics, and experience delayed entry into public health vaccination programs.”

There are no specific vaccines for avian influenza in humans, though trial vaccines have been developed for pandemic preparedness in some countries. But these vaccines are not recommended for pregnant women because of a lack of safety data.

“That’s one of the challenges we often have with vaccines, as it is considered unsafe to test them in pregnant women,” Purcell said. “I think as we move forward, what we need to do is think about how we get data on pregnant women.

“If women are enrolled in vaccine safety studies, sometimes those women will inadvertently become pregnant, and there’s an opportunity to ethically study what happens to those women.”

This is the point of the study, the point of the article, the interest being advocated here by Dr Rachael Purcell. Conducting vaccine trials on pregnant women.

There are very good reasons why this is not done. Firstly, the fetus could be harmed or killed. Secondly, the data from pregnant women is useless for assessing safety and efficacy in anyone other than a pregnant woman. As the vast majority of the population are not pregnant women, it is unnecessarily hazardous and a waste of limited resources to test a vaccine on pregnant women first. That can come later, once you’ve developed a useful vaccine and deployed it widely, reducing the risk of infection of everyone in a society, including pregnant women.

Australian doctor conducts review study, tangentially related to current global disease outbreak, in order to advocate for her desire to conduct medical experiments on pregnant women

This is clearly about American politics, and a strong indictment of the Republican Party.

“Same” is a valid response. I’ve never had an optometrist challenge it.

In the 1960s, the US government started cracking down on buying firearms. Bombings suddenly became rampant. In 1970, the US averaged more than a bombing a day. The government then tightened up restrictions on buying explosives further than they had for firearms, and Americans resigned themselves to going back to buying guns and shooting each other.

If the US government were to further restrict guns, people would notice that it’s easier to DIY a bomb than it is to DIY a gun, and that the former is also quite a bit more effective at making a point.

You can purchase everything you need to manufacture explosives in a supermarket.

you HAD to talk to someone because you were so fucking bored

Yeah, nah, I just read one or two novels each day.

I have the same jacket in 8 different colors.

I started lucid dreaming when I was about 8 years old. This was before google, and when I asked my parents about it, they had no idea what I was talking about. So I didn’t know what exactly was happening, but I did know it was super gay to be conscious while sleeping, so I spent a few weeks figuring out how to forget I was dreaming. I eventually succeeded, but ever since I’ve had the ability to think “Oh, this is a nightmare, I need to wake up.” and open my eyes, wide awake.