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Old 11-10-2020, 03:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Robbie0723 View Post
They vacinate half a population with the vaccine and the other half without. And then monitor who gets COVID and who does not. At his point, it appears that out of +35,000 participants, close to 100 have gotten COVID, only 9 of those who received the vaccine got COVID.

They do not expose participants to the virus.
They send the participants out into the community to live their lives as they normally would. But, but, but, what if the participants wore masks and socially distanced themselves from others? Would that skew the results of the trials? Or are the participants told not to wear masks and not to social distance?
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