An NIH-led study plans to assess transmission after vaccination by asking college students to delay vaccination for four months. To me, this seems neither necessary nor ethically justifiable, and the study design probably can’t even answer their question.https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19vaccine/91832 …
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I’m definitely ok with using natural, unavoidable scarcities (like launching this in December when as college students were not going to be eligible soon) or discussing launching it someplace with no access to vaccines (though I am for vaccinating globally ASAP). But now? Here?
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Also, we already have a a lot of data on vaccines blunting transmission, and I am not even convinced this study (testing close-contacts of college students when a lot of spread happens in mass events like parties etc.) will give us anything more precise than what we already know.
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College students are low-risk but they are not zero risk, and Long Covid is a (not that well-understood) thing of some prevalance (maybe less than reported but it is a thing. It is real). Dunno. We have existing answers, this won’t give us more precision imo, and it is a risk.
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Which brings up the question of whether the study is about misinformation rather than about medical impact?
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That doesn’t sound like informed consent to me
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How’d that pass IRB?
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