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"It has not yet dawned on hardly anybody the amount of complexity and chaos and confusion that will happen in a few short months," said Dr. Gregory Poland, the director of the Vaccine Research Group at the Mayo Clinic.
Some of this confusion is inevitable, but some is the result of how coronavirus vaccine trials were designed: Each company is running its own trial, comparing its jab with a placebo. But it didn't have to be this way.
In the spring, when government scientists began discussing how to invest in vaccine research, some wanted to test a number of vaccines all at once, against each other - what's known as a master protocol.
Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was in favor of the idea. But these mega-trials pose a business risk for any given vaccine maker because they reveal how a vaccine stacks up against its competitors.
Instead, the government offered to bankroll large vaccine trials if companies agreed to some common ground rules and shared some data. The companies were still allowed to run the trials on their own."
There you go: business interests over American health needs. Not a new story...
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Topic - Vaccine: no, it won't be the miracle some are already claiming. - tinear 14:06:51 10/12/20 (13)
- RE: Vaccine: no, it won't be the miracle some are already claiming. - bullethead 01:09:22 10/13/20 (0)
- RE: Vaccine: no, it won't be the miracle some are already claiming. - fantja 17:37:17 10/12/20 (10)
- It doesn't have to be - Batman 18:50:41 10/12/20 (9)
- good post - thanks. nt - bjh 14:48:23 10/13/20 (0)
- Thank you sir, always realistically helpful to read your posts on the subject!... N/T - musetap 14:00:28 10/13/20 (0)
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- And a guy in Nevada just caught it for the second time: far more serious is the second. And, some forget, - tinear 08:07:36 10/13/20 (5)
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- Glen Beck just stated that the current strain of Covid now circulating... - Steve O 08:42:36 10/13/20 (3)
- "You first, Glen!" nt - tinear 09:38:03 10/13/20 (2)
- Recall early on... - Steve O 10:01:20 10/13/20 (1)
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