When a new cure, treatment, vaccine, etc. comes out after x months or years of testing how do scientists know the effects of the drug longer into the future than the current testing? If a drug has been safe for the past 12 months of testing how do they know it doesn’t kill/harm you at 13 months? Obviously, it has to be released to the public at some point, but how do they make that decision?
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That’s why they call public release phase 4. We won’t know, so it gets tested on the open market and the outcomes of people using the drug are continuously monitored so that if it ends up being harmful, the drug gets pulled.
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