“Aren’t clinical trials for new vaccines double-blind with placebo controls anyways? Like this is standard practice.”
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“Not if a safe and effective vaccine already exists. Why? Because it’s unethical to not give someone protection from a preventable disease if protection exists.”
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“If a vaccine already exists, a lot of times the existing is compared to the new version. I participated in such a trial for prevnar (13 vs. 20). when they were testing a version that covers more strains of a bacteria or virus.”
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