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Tbf their main beef was with the characterisation of him as an antivaxer by people with zero knowledge just because they were asking what they felt were legitimate questions. So on that no. But I don't think they've been vaccinated as they don't see covid as a risk for them.
I should say that I have zero knowledge of what actually happened with the covid vaccines. But just to describe one small part of one phase in the trials process. Before you start, say, the first human trial (2b) you have to submit the trial plan to the national regulatory authority - which is normally a queue system. So you write it, wait your turn, they review, come back with questions and comments, you'll answer them, adapt the trail, rewrite, resubmit, potentially repeat again. At the time the phase 2a trial I was involved with was submitted there was a TB outbreak. This lead to concerns about how this had been factored into our trial as well as being pushed down the queue. So just getting our trial approved went from 6m to close to a year. Which then impacted our slot at the clinical trials facility...etc...etc...
All the while you've got the commercial sensitivities of how profitable our job was Vs others and what time weighting contractors are going to give it.
As a non-clinical person, I can well imagine the actual work done for what I've described could have been knocked out in two days of conference calls with a decent skilled team and no real world commercial pressures.