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The Downside to Getting Out Two COVID Vaccines So Fast Kaiser Health News
By Arthur Allen, KHN
As I prepared to get my shot in mid-December as part of a COVID-19 vaccine trial run by Janssen Pharmaceuticals, I considered the escape routes. Bailing out of the trial was a very real consideration since two other vaccines, made by Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech, had been deemed safe and effective for emergency approval.
Leaving the trial would be a perfectly sane decision for me or anyone who had volunteered for an ongoing COVID experiment. Why risk getting COVID if I was given a placebo, a shot with no vaccine in it? The way tests are designed, I might not be told whether I received the vaccine until the clinical trial is over, months from now.