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What's True Thalidomide was a “miracle drug” commonly prescribed in the 1950s to treat an assortment of ailments, including nausea in pregnant women. The therapeutic was not rigorously tested in large human populations and was pulled from the market less than a decade after its introduction because it caused malformations in newborns. What's False Thalidomide was not “rapidly approved” using comparable approval requirements necessary in 2020 for the COVID-19 vaccine. Furthermore, thalidomide is not a vaccine, and does not provide a possible case study for long-term safety...

Lack of oversight Even if the results of clinical trials had been available, however, they would not have been reliable, because trials at the time did not require either FDA approval or oversight. In fact, unbeknownst to the FDA, the company had already distributed 2.5 million thalidomide pills to doctors across the U.S. The doctors had administered them to around 20,000 patients, including 207 pregnant people. More than 1,000 doctors took part in these “clinical trials,” though few monitored the effects of the drug on their patients. According to the FDA, during this period, there were ...