Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by ulfw on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @09:55AM
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It's already been beta tested. That's the point of Phase 3 trials.
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Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by cafebabbe on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:00AM
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*Shortened phase 3 trials.
Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by ulfw on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @01:18PM
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It's 40,000+ people. What else do you want?
Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by wiz21c on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:24AM
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I'd be happy to know how that shortening affects confidence in the vaccine.
Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by NhanH on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:30AM
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Efficacy confidence isn't affected, but side effect confidence is.
Re:Pfizer Covid vaccine approved for use next week in UK
by ineedasername on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @10:35AM
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20% points seems to be the drop as the rapid approval process became a victim hyper-partisanship in the US. The push for a rapid approval has been viewed, by the left, as a political ploy by the right instead of a well-planned & scientifically supported approval process. Early polls about taking a vaccine showed much higher support for it before it was politicized. [0]
Support dropped by 20%. Surprisingly, it dropped by about the same amount for both the political right & left, although support on the left started at a higher level. This may indicate that even people on the right were influenced by the perception of a too-rapid approval process.
[0] https://www.pewresearch.org/science/2020/09/17/u-s-public-no...