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I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Thank you very much for sharing this. >Until now, this vaccine has only been tested on laboratory mice and other animal species and this is the first time that the vaccine will be given to humans. Is it possible to know which species those are?
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Considering all the excluded groups on the trial (page 3, kids, 55+, obese, weak immune system, a lot more), it's a lot of exclusions, how does one get from results on a study like this to declaring the vaccine safe for general use?
Source: My partner is an infectious disease specialist and we talk about this pretty much daily because I'm so curious.
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Because the government hasn't been able to do anything right for 270 years, why do you think they're suddenly gonna wake up a figure out mass manufacturing? We can't educate our kids at an acceptable level without billions of dollars being donated on top of all the tax collected, we can't figure out how to make medicare work responsibly despite literally being able to control costs, what do you think makes drug manuf…
In the US, one party has dedicated itself to making sure the government is dysfunctional for a _long_ time so that it can run on the platform that government doesn’t work and we should privatize everything. This is not a fact of nature, it’s a willful decision. For example, the US used to be a leader in education. The thing that changed since then is one party started defunding education and moving that money to priv…
School funding happens at the state level too, not just the federal grants.
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Considering all the excluded groups on the trial (page 3, kids, 55+, obese, weak immune system, a lot more), it's a lot of exclusions, how does one get from results on a study like this to declaring the vaccine safe for general use?
So I am assuming this is the control group.
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SARS-CoV-2 relies on superspreading much more than e.g. the common cold. When you hear, for example, that each patient in a given area infects 1.2 other people on average, this doesn't mean that everyone spreads it to one or two people. It means that out of 10 infectious patients, 9 patients don't spread it to anyone else and the tenth patient spreads it to a dozen people at once. Because of this high dispersion rate…
I'm not saying don't give it to them as well, just do the vulnerable people first. At least then we stand a chance of getting the economy back on its feet.
For instance, I'm a vulnerable person because of preexisting conditions, so I'll likely be offered a vaccine relatively soon after approval. But that won't have a large impact on economic recovery: I'm in the home office in a single-person household and don't have any care obligations, so I'm at a comparatively low risk anyway. And I won't change my current behavior until the disease is fully gone anyway.
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Are you given any monetary compensation or compensation at all for joining the trial?
>You will be compensated for your time, the inconvenience of having blood tests and procedures, and your travel expenses. The total amount compensated will be approximately £235 - £625 depending on the exact number of visits and whether any repeat or additional visits are necessary.
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Not when it's a monopoly. That means the company gets to exploit the results of the research for their own profit, without any competition to keep prices reasonable. Non-exclusive deals are fine. Exclusive ones are not.
Look, I understand the frustration but they're not going to set this price. This thing is way bigger than this company and even the entire pharmaceutical industry. This is a global crisis. Many governments have proven that they will put the public's need over these companies need. They've broken patents and pressured companies before and they will obviously do it again. There are more governments in the world than th…
Good news for US BigPharma Merck holding the Oxford patents, while public funding has paid for its research: https://archive.is/aGUJd
Who cares. I'd gladly give this company a couple of billion if it means they can get us back to normal. Oxford develops the vaccine with public money. We also, god willing, need to manufacture billions of them and transport them around the globe. For that manufacturing, give me a solid existing multinational with a proven manufacturing record and base please, not some non-profit startup.
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Considering all the excluded groups on the trial (page 3, kids, 55+, obese, weak immune system, a lot more), it's a lot of exclusions, how does one get from results on a study like this to declaring the vaccine safe for general use?
I'm in the trial. Here's the participant information sheet, in case anyone's curious: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WB5QPmECchlThnem9wcX0PDaKQW...
Thank you very much for sharing this. >Until now, this vaccine has only been tested on laboratory mice and other animal species and this is the first time that the vaccine will be given to humans. Is it possible to know which species those are?