1ºRuth Martinez Here in South Africa, our SAHPRA - South African Health Products Regulatory Authority just copies what the US FDA - Food and Drug Administration does, if the latter approves something, they do the same. Every single drug that was withdrawn by the FDA, due to health risks including deaths, was once approved by the same FDA, hence the total lack of trust in them. They are funded by big pharma, so obviously they will approve almost any drug submitted to them and only deal with the fallout later. Look at the case of the $2.3 billion fine that Pfizer was ordered to pay for the deaths of children in Nigeria due to one of their products. And the same FDA no longer approves the use of the J&J vaccine for certain individuals due to the risk of blood clots. You appear to be very uninformed for an American citizen.
2ºJoe Roman There are also many medicines that are approved in other countries but not approved by the FDA. Someone here mentioned thalidomide. That was widely used in Europe for morning sickness back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. FDA blocked it for use in the US and we were spared the tragedies that Europeans suffered. Back in the 1980s FDA approvals for the first AIDS drugs were taking longer than many people thought they should, so FDA expedited approval. Many people didn't experience the expected benefits and others had bad and sometimes fatal reactions; those communities that needed the drugs understood and accepted the risks upfront, though. During our recent baby formula shortage FDA kept most Chinese-made formula out of the US based on what they already knew about Chinese formula production and their history. People gripe when FDA takes too much time to approve treatments, and they gripe when problems emerge after approvals. Not sure what to tell you other than maybe just to stick to aspirin.
BTW, the Covid vaccine rollout has been shown to be one of the most successful and safest in history - safer than polio, measles, and a variety of other vaccines. Of course there haven't been any studies on the long-term effects of using the vaccines to implant Bill Gates' mind-control chips in peoples' brains.