Re:Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Va...
by Karrot_Kream on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @02:29PM
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Participants will continue to be monitored for the next 2 years. This just marks the point at which Pfizer can claim their vaccine to be more than 30% effective.
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Re:Pfizer and BioNTech Conclude Phase 3 Study of Covid-19 Va...
by virtuallynathan on Wednesday November 18, 2020 @03:55PM
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They will unfortunately vaccinate the placebo arm as soon as they get the EUA. At this point the study would be mostly unblinded, so far as I can tell, there will also be a much smaller, if any control group.
“If our potential vaccine receives an EUA, we would propose amending the study protocol to create a process so that interested, eligible participants who received the placebo could ‘cross-over’ to the vaccine arm of the study,”