As far as I understand, pregnant women and children are ineligible to get the vaccine at current. Testing needs to be done first.
Yes this is what I said.
Safety testing was not short changed here. There is only one difference. Normally, the follow people for at least two months post phase 3 to see if there are any long term effects. That is being done here on a rolling basis, and so some people, because of emergency use benefits, will get the vaccine before that is complete.
2 months isn't "longterm". Testing has always taken years for new vaccines. The fastest a new vaccine has ever been produced is 4 years for the mumps. There's also never been a coronavirus vaccine (SARS, MERS etc) because there's been major safety concerns. I'm not saying it won't be safe, i'm saying testing obviously hasn't been as rigorous with this vaccine, but risks are very low , longterm side-effects for vaccines are very rare. Ideally they would take more time to test but the risks of producing these vaccines now are far less than not producing them and letting people continue to die from COVID.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2020-04-17/coronavirus-vaccine-ian-frazer/12146616https://discoveries.childrenshospital.org/covid-19-vaccine/https://immunizebc.ca/testing-approval-and-monitoring