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What this class of vaccine does is make a bunch of foreign proteins for your immune system to attack in your arm without actually infecting you with the disease
by ThrustVectoring 6y ago
What this class of vaccine does is make a bunch of foreign proteins for your immune system to attack in your arm without actually infecting you with the disease. So you get inflammation and soreness at the injection site, and this is not from the physics of having an injection. The placebo arm injects with a saline solution, so there's no immune response, and you miss those symptoms.
- NoodleIncident 6y agoIt might have been the trial for a different vaccine; I think it was the one someone on this site was participating in? But in that trial, the control was another proven vaccine for something most people don't commonly get vaccinated for.
- ckdarby 6y agoDo you think people could perceive having "false" inflammation? I'm thinking that if during the double blind trial they told those not getting the real dose that they should expect inflammation that many of them would believe they're having some form of inflammation.
- pastrami_panda 6y agoYes, it's called nocebo effect and can be quite harmful actually.
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoI got muscle aches, fatigue, and headaches, but my arm never felt more than a little hot. I still have no idea which branch I'm in.
- ThrustVectoring 6y agoyou probably got the vaccine, saline injections don't do that
- minkzilla 6y agoMany people get placebo effects
- eli_gottlieb 6y agoThat's what I thought, but my effects were mild compared to what I've heard other people reporting. Either I got milder side-effects because I'm young, or I'm fooling myself.
- ebiester 6y agoFrom what I've heard from one of the trials, they used a meningitis vaccine that actually does hurt. (Its side effects are known but minor.) That was hearsay, though, and I don't have access to the internal protocol.