If You Did This in 2020, You Can Get Your COVID Vaccine Sooner
By Kali Coleman of Best Life |
If You Did This in 2020, You Can Get Your COVID Vaccine Sooner
The first coronavirus vaccines have already been administered in the United States, but a limited supply means many will have to wait for their chance. With the hope of immunity on the horizon, the general public is eager to skip the line, and it looks like some people might be getting a chance. Pfizer is giving placebo patients who participated in their 2020 trials an opportunity to get the COVID vaccine sooner. Read on to find out the reasoning behind this new policy, and for more vaccine perks, If You Get a COVID-19 Vaccine, You Can Get This For Free.
Pfizer trialâs placebo volunteers tapped to receive real vaccine
Placebo volunteers called to get real vaccine in Virginia By A.J. Nwoko | December 17, 2020 at 11:29 PM EST - Updated December 18 at 8:57 AM
MIDLOTHIAN, Va. (WWBT) - Now that the Pfizer vaccine is being made available to those most at risk, doctors at the Virginia Research Center - which is a phase-3 Pfizer vaccine trial site - is notifying volunteers who got the placebo to come back in and get the real thing.
The Pfizer vaccine trial is a double-blind study, meaning that neither the doctors nor the volunteers know if they are receiving the vaccine or a placebo.
Virginia teen urges peers to volunteer for Pfizer vaccine trial
Virginia teen urges peers to volunteer for Pfizer trial By A.J. Nwoko | December 16, 2020 at 11:41 PM EST - Updated December 16 at 11:41 PM
RICHMOND, Va. (WWBT) - At only 16-years-old, Powhatan resident Conner Jeffs wanted to do his part to help end the COVID-19 pandemic after hearing testimonies from his extended family on the frontlines of the disease.
“My uncle is a doctor in Minnesota and my cousin is a nurse up in Baltimore, so I’ve hear stories of how they’ve experienced the pandemic in hospitals and in the intensive care units what the patients are going through and it just sucks hear that,” Jeffs said. “We’re all in this together, that’s what we’ve been saying at school.”