The ‘vaccines’ being prepared for covid19 won’t do what people (and Governments and media) expect of a vaccine.
Peter Doshi, Associate Editor of the BMJ has analysed the lead candidates and concludes:
“None of the trials currently under way are designed to detect a reduction in any serious outcome such as hospital admissions, use of intensive care, or deaths. Nor are the vaccines being studied to determine whether they can interrupt transmission of the virus.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4037
The world has bet the farm on vaccines as the solution to the pandemic, but the trials are not focused on answering the questions many might assume they are. Peter Doshi reports As phase III trials of covid-19…
The world has bet the farm on vaccines as the solution to the pandemic, but the trials are not focused on answering the questions many might assume they are. Peter Doshi reports As phase III trials of covid-19 vaccines reach their target enrolments, officials have been trying to project calm. The US…