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It would be unethical to hold back vaccinations from a control group for 2 years after it already proved efficacy. It would also get very hard to find study vol
by belltaco 6y ago
It would be unethical to hold back vaccinations from a control group for 2 years after it already proved efficacy. It would also get very hard to find study volunteers because why would people join a vaccine study if there is a 50-50 chance it means they can't be protected for 2 full years?
- breck 6y ago> It would be unethical to hold back vaccinations from a control group for 2 years after it already proved efficacy. Is it? I don't remember reading about that in NIH training on control groups. I'm pretty sure when your plan is to distribute 1 billion vaccines, holding out 0.000015 for a placebo control group is a sensible "ethical" tradeoff. Especially if, I don't know, everyone *volunteered* and agreed to those terms when signing up! And especially if, I don't know, all the data they had to date showed no increase in death rate?