Re:Health ministry warns of vaccine's side effects (Japan)
by hdjjhhvvhga on Monday December 06, 2021 @08:46AM
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> Ethics. It is routine to terminate a medical trial early when the results are so clear that you know you are harming the participants by continuing;
Except that plenty of people already decided they don't want to vaccinate, so why not to ask them to participate? Of course a double-blind study would be unethical.
> once you have an effective treatment, placebo controlled trials become unethical
But this is a vaccine, not a treatment. And given the scale of vaccination, wouldn't it make sense to have a control group for analyzing long-term effects? Yes, I heard many times that long-term effects are "unlikely," but the tiny possibility becomes significant at scale.
Except that plenty of people already decided they don't want to vaccinate, so why not to ask them to participate? Of course a double-blind study would be unethical.
> once you have an effective treatment, placebo controlled trials become unethical
But this is a vaccine, not a treatment. And given the scale of vaccination, wouldn't it make sense to have a control group for analyzing long-term effects? Yes, I heard many times that long-term effects are "unlikely," but the tiny possibility becomes significant at scale.