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Originally Posted by Rain Man
I'm kind of curious how the vaccine trial works. They're going to give it to 30,000 people, who are presumably paid volunteers. Do they then use national statistics as a control group? I presume they're not paying another 30,000 people to be a control group.
But if you're in the vaccine group, I wonder if you behave differently. Do you have more confidence to be out and about? Not wear a mask? I guess they're probably asking them a lot of behavioral questions, but then they'd also have to ask some control group the same behavioral questions. Maybe the control group is just a public survey?
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The Phase II Moderna trial is placebo-controlled with two different strengths of vaccine.
Phase II/III of the Oxford trial uses the meningococcal vaccine as a control.
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