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Originally Posted by Montana Man
I get how clinical trials run their course. What they can't quantify is how the affects of covid would be less if you had a vax. There is no way to determine how severe your symptoms will be with or without a shot.
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It is just a matter of comparisons between the group receiving the vaccine and the group receiving a placebo. If the vaccinated group had far fewer people with severe symptoms than the group receiving the placebo, then it is pretty good proof that the vaccine reduced the severity of the virus. And in the trials, at least for J&J and I think the others as well, the vaccine was 100% effective against required hospitalization and death! That is a telling statistic.