It's clear that some people don't like Mercola.com as a news source. I've defended the site as a source of generally good information in the past and I continue to do so, but I thought that I might as well put the site in the title so that those who don't like the news source can just pass it by instead of rehashing the same old websites like Quackwatch that say that it's bad.
With that said, on to another article from them, published yesterday:
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Full article is visible on the making of a free account here:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/02/covid-vaccine-testing.aspx
With that said, on to another article from them, published yesterday:
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STORY AT-A-GLANCE
- Vaccine makers rarely use inert placebos (such as a saline shot), which is the gold standard for drug trials. Instead, they typically assess the safety of a new vaccine against another vaccine. This hides side effects, as most vaccines have side effects and risks
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is being tested against a meningitis vaccine, which shares many of the side effects reported from COVID-19 vaccines
- Pfizer and Moderna have started offering placebo recipients in their trials the real mRNA gene therapy, which means it will be even more difficult to tease out which side effects are actually caused by the shot and which ones aren’t, over the long term
- In one clinical trial for the Moderna vaccine in Lenexa, Kansas, virtually all of the 650 volunteers who initially received the placebo have opted to get the real vaccine, which means there’s essentially no comparison group left for the ongoing study, which was slated to run for two years
- Some argue that placebo arms aren’t needed in COVID-19 vaccine trials, but their argument hinges on the idea that the vaccine being tested is known to be safe, which it absolutely is not at this point, and won’t be for many years
Full article is visible on the making of a free account here:
https://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2021/03/02/covid-vaccine-testing.aspx