I got Pfizer 12/16. And the article misstates important facts.
The Pfizer and Moderna trials were not designed or powered to answer the question of whether a vaccinated person can acquire or transmit asymptomatic infection. Had that been the criterion for EUA, the trials would still be going on and would probably take another year.
We don’t have another year.
I have had continuous patient contact with COVID since March (and I saw my first patient on January 23, 2000). The difference in severe illness and death between Moderna and Pfizer vaccines and the placebo in the Phase III trials is huge and growing.
So, I’m more than happy to get dose #2 next week, and I think Operation Warp Speed (which woul not and could not have been imagined by anyone on Biden’s incoming team) has produced fantastic success.
Thanks Jim. As usual far more eloquent than anything I could come up with. You reference ongoing divergence between placebo and severe illness. Can you private mail those numbers or put them out on this thread?
I totally agree that Operation Warp Speed is a great success that Biden or Hillary would never have come close to. I am in the Moderna trial, don’t know if I got the vaccine or placebo, but did have a sore arm for a few days after the first shot. This week I had my first known exposure to someone with COVID who came to our house Tuesday and told us on Thursday she just tested positive. My wife was traveling to her father’s funeral in another state when she found out (I have a broken leg and can’t travel, essentially self quarantined anyway). Our visitor was wearing a mask when she came in and was less than 15 minutes in the house, but very close to my wife so she is trying her best to limit contact with others until she can get a meaningful test (we’re told 5 to 7 days).