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Originally Posted by jklfairwin
From what I read, all participants were not tested at the end of the trial period. Only those who had symptoms were tested. So there may have been many more who contracted covid but were asymptomatic so not tested and not counted. While they may have been unsymptomatic, the consensus is that asymptotic infected people can still spread it to others. So while the efficacy numbers look great, and may in fact be so, it must be taken with a few grains of salt.
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How can a trial be conducted and not all participants be tested at the end of the trial? I find that to be negligent on the part of the people conducting the trial. Hope this information you read about is totally wrong about not testing all participants. Actually, that just makes no sense at all.