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yet this exactly what the pharma companies did during the clinical trials to confirm the vaccines' efficacy.
by disambiguation 5y ago
yet this exactly what the pharma companies did during the clinical trials to confirm the vaccines' efficacy.
- IX-103 5y agoWait, what? No. Just no. To confirm efficacy they gave the vaccine to half of a population likely to develop the disease naturally. Then they compared how many people for sick in each group. That's why testing took a year instead of 2 months, they have to wait for enrollees to get sick naturally. If we ignore ethics, I guess we could get more nuanced efficacy information out of a small sacrificial population. But that is just not done. Not even during a pandemic.