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Circulating SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Detected in the Plasma of mRNA Vaccine Recipients
- PaulHoule 5y agoThis is exactly what the vaccine is meant to do.
- rossdavidh 5y agoI'm no expert, but I found myself wondering, "isn't that what's supposed to happen? Is their point that it was only 11 of the 13 people?" Perhaps it's just one of those "just checking" kinds of findings?
- PaulHoule 5y agoUnfortunately I think that paper has no value in the sense that it is not useful information to draw a conclusion from. We know not 100% percent of people get an immune response from the vaccine and maybe one reason is the mRNA fails in them. That result is consistent with that. On the other hand people overestimate the accuracy of medical tests, particularly unusual tests that the people don't do every day. A test like Cholesterol is done many times a day by the technician who meets regularly with other technicians as professional development to test the same sample and try to get the same result! They ask you your name and date of birth several times when you get blood drawn because sample collection and handling accidents are also widespread. In middle school they probably told you that a scientific experiment is supposed to use a "control" and that is one reason why -- if your testing lab is bad the problem would affect both conditions equally and you'd be likely to get a null result as opposed to "We tested N patients with COVID-19 and found no detectable Vitamin C in them." Real scientists do experiments without controls, get them accepted in peer reviewed journals, but have the results rejected when it comes to these folks https://www.cochrane.org/ https://www.cochrane.org/ who comb through the literature for evidence to make clinical decisions.