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In some COVID-19 vaccine trials, participants in the control group (the group receiving a placebo) are injected with a saline solution. In other trials, they receive an actual treatment. For example, in the COVID-19 vaccine developed by the University of Oxford, the control group receives a meningitis and septicaemia vaccine as a placebo.
What researchers are looking for is a difference. So if the active vaccine causes more numbness at the site of injection than the placebo, you can reliably say that numbness is a side-effect of the active vaccine. But if the placebo is designed to cause the side-effect (like redness and swelling), then the normal way of detecting side-effects doesn’t work. Since the placebo causes the side-effect, we will no longer be able to detect a difference. In other words, the two side-effects, being the same, negate each other.
They could be getting paid all that money for just a placebo vaccine. Only reason it’s so effective is it’s fighting a fake virus.
relaxed regulations, bought and paid for FDA, no liability for damages
originally posted by: LookingAtMars
a reply to: carewemust
They did a lot of talking about it.
I think it was all BS.
originally posted by: ABNARTY
a reply to: LookingAtMars
Amazing isn't it?
No one has developed a successful vaccine for a corona virus ever. Now, we got two of them in a matter of months. On top of that, they are 90% effective which is an astonishing success rate.
The whole thing is so fishy, who would believe it? Oh wait...