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Old 11-22-2020, 10:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Buckeye Bleau View Post
What you are describing with the 50% receiving a placebo is a blind study that is used for a different purpose.
In this case they only want to know if it is effective or not and to what percentage it is efficacious.
So they would use known infected individuals and introduce the vaccine or healthy people then give them the pathogen and the vaccine. Right now they say over 90% effective so it resolved the ailment in over 9 of 10 participants.

There were some participants that died after receiving the vaccine, I am not sure where they would fall in the numbers, but then they don’t want to tell you about them.
Of course people died after receiving the vaccine. There were 30,000 people in at least one of the trials, with 15,000 getting the vaccine and 15,000 getting a placebo. In a population of 30,000 people, of all ages, ethnicity, health condition, etc., some people will die. Some will die after drinking milk for breakfast. Did the milk kill them? No. They could have died not necessarily from a vaccine, but just from normal living. Your comment makes it seem like "they" are hiding something. Balderdash. An American corporation could never survive such dishonesty. People who cast dispersion of unfounded suspicion only play into people's fears.