Many placebo doses.?
I wonder about placebos also...we are in a small tourist/farm community where voters are about 70% leftist, and I think our county had highest per capita shots in state. But, I think very few died...dont know about covid rates.
As I understand it, the most likely way they metered the damage while still being able to learn from it. They didn’t have to disclose half of what was in the jabs, so they could have changed it from batch to batch. That also would have made it all the more profitable for it, and would explain why there was such a variation of result between batch numbers.
Moderna in theory was the more concentrated and so should have been the more damaging and deadly, but if they used more placebo doses than Pfizer did, they’d likely end up with results to the contrary—as reported here.