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Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by ceejayoz on Tuesday March 23, 2021 @09:57AM (#26555024)
Lab confirmation of double masking can be performed in an afternoon. A clinical trial is going to take tens of thousands of self-reporting "I wore two" people for months or longer, plus difficulties with all sorts of confounding variables.

I'm very comfortable with a tentative recommendation based on the lab data for a non-dangerous intervention. If we get observational data a year from now confirming it, even better.

Re:AstraZeneca may have provided incomplete efficacy data NIAID by peytn on Tuesday March 30, 2021 @07:50PM (#26641983)
Then you are more comfortable than I with unreviewed reports from government scientists a year into a declared state of emergency. That’s okay.