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Dosing error turns into lucky punch for AstraZeneca and Oxford
- _Microft 6y agoScary that this could happen at all.
- throwaway888abc 6y agoBelieve this due to time constrain. Proper vaccine takes about 10-20 years to develop/tweak. One trial round is/was 3 months.
- jonplackett 6y agoI guess it joins a long list of accidental scientific discoveries, with Penicillin and a lot more besides. https://www.sciencealert.com/these-eighteen-accidental-scientific-discoveries-changed-the-world https://www.sciencealert.com/these-eighteen-accidental-scien...
- jm1234567890 6y agoThere could be a confounding factor here. People who got the lower doses also got less severe reactions. So they may have guessed they got the placebo and consequently were more careful to not contract covid-19. Whereas, the full dose caused more obvious reactions, which made it clear the participant didn’t get the placebo. As a result, they went out to party.