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Re:Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? by linuxftw on Friday June 26, 2026 @11:33AM (#48687884)
And we know this was an outright lie, because the clinical trials did not include contracting the virus as an endpoint. In fact, in Pfizer's data, they only used PCR tests on symptomatic people, rather than periodic testing.

So to say the clinical trials reflected absence of infection is a deliberate lie. Either they knew what the data said and lied, or they didn't know what the data said and stated they did, which is a lie.

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Re:Why were Covid vaccine trials so fast? by Izkata on Friday June 26, 2026 @09:41PM (#48694330)
Pfizer didn't lie. If you go back to their press releases they were careful to distinguish SARS-CoV-2 from COVID-19, the result being that they said you wouldn't get sick while saying nothing of infection/spread. It was the media and politicians that started that.
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