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According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Clinical_trials_started_in_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Clinical_t
by bloak 6y ago
According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Clinical_trials_started_in_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_vaccine#Clinical_tria...) there are 8 COVID-19 vaccines in phase 3 trials. A week or so ago I read about an experiment in Brazil that compared 5 of them. So this Pfizer press release doesn't seem terribly exciting to me. I already knew it was very likely that at least one vaccine will be available to some people in a month or so.
I know a couple of people who are experimental subjects in COVID-19 vaccine trials (meaning that they may or may not have received a COVID-19 vaccine: it's double-blind, of course). It's an interesting question what happens to those people if they become elligible for real vaccination before the trial they are participating in has come to an end.
- bluGill 6y agoEveryone expected/hoped that there would be a vaccination within a month. However until now it was just hope: there was always the risk when all 8 of those ran their data they discover they don't work at all.
- bloak 6y agoThere were already some positive preliminary results from the five vaccines being tested in Brazil, so "don't work at all" was already ruled out, I think. Obviously the press release from Pfizer isn't going to mention the other vaccines, but a diligent journalist might look up the details and do some kind of comparison. Perhaps the diligent journalists need a bit more time to write their articles. Perhaps we should wait a day or two and consult a better source than the BBC.
- bluGill 6y agoI haven't heard about those other results so I cannot comment on them. I agree a journalist should know about them (unless they are so flawed in some way as to not be worth my time, which a good journalist should know but most don't).