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Re: DECOMP --- Vaccine

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Re: “After the trial, they should tell you if you got the real thing or a placebo. What is the secret after you have gone through that?”
A trial runs for some period of time - say, 180 days. At the end of that time, they tally up the numbers to see whether those who received their medicine fared better than those who didn't.

Now, if they TOLD their participants whether they'd received the real medicine, the ones who didn't might behave differently than the others, perhaps not going out to eat as often or reducing their interactions with hookers due to concern that they'd better be careful. That could affect the results, making those who had only had a placebo look better than they would otherwise, and spoil the whole study. Statistically, neither group should know their own status until the entire thing is over.

Probably, even the Merck experimenters didn't know the status of their patients until the end of the trial (which might still be underway, so far as I know.) That's called a double blind study, everything randomized and nobody knowing what's what. It's the only way to be sure that nothing biases the outcome.








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Re: DECOMP --- Vaccine
By: kathy_s16
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Sun, 24 Jan 21 5:55 AM
Msg. 11854 of 58648

No, I didn't sign up for this and have no intention of getting vaccinated until the J&J product comes out.
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I agree with waiting until the Johnson and Johnson product comes out.

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The hospital reviewed its records and made recommendations to the CDC. I didn't know anything about it.

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Oh crap. Somebody is going to turn me in. They are talking about mandatory vaccines. This is America?

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CA and PA are not getting vaccinated? I get emails daily about where they are giving the shots. I just don't want one right now.
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My brother in FL is champing at the bit to get on another cruise ship

ME, TOO. I would go again.

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My brother in FL is champing at the bit to get on another cruise ship. He participated in the Merck trial and *might* be immune at this point, but he doesn't know. They won't tell him if he received the real thing or a placebo. They also won't tell him if their drug worked. Anyway, he says he'll get vaccinated at the first opportunity. I told him it's not a vaccine. He says he doesn't care. He's a somewhat more trusting individual than I am.

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After the trial, they should tell you if you got the real thing or a placebo. What is the secret after you have gone through that?

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Not a very trusting person here, either.

I think we both read too much.


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