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Do you get to know, at the end of trial, in which group you were?
by jobigoud 6y ago
Do you get to know, at the end of trial, in which group you were?
- vmurthy 6y agoNot OP but from the reports I have read, people who have been given placebos will be informed if the actual vaccine is found be really effective. This is for ethical concerns (in the sense that it would be unethical to not vaccinate people who have got a placebo if the real vaccine is really effective)
- syndacks 6y agoFor some history on the matter of ethics in medical research, the 'Tuskegee Experiments' was among the most infamous biomedical research study in U.S. history [0]. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study
- vmurthy 6y agoThank you for the refresher. I originally read it https://www.damninteresting.com/bad-blood-in-tuskegee/ https://www.damninteresting.com/bad-blood-in-tuskegee/ and found it depressing :(. The rest of the site is , well, damn interesting :)
- maxehmookau 6y agoYes, at the end of the trial I will be told which group I was in. That's currently due for March 2021, but things change quickly.