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To: Diogenesis

How many US patients have received placebos so far?

If not, why not?


4 posted on 11/05/2014 9:24:42 AM PST by Black Agnes
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To: Black Agnes

>>How many US patients have received placebos so far?

Here was one:

https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3804224/posts
An Ebola patient treated in the U.S. chose to remain anonymous. Now he’s telling his story.
Boston.com ^ | 28 Dec 2019 | Lenny Bernstein

With Ebola spreading across West Africa, an experimental drug called ZMapp had been rushed into clinical testing. Seventy-two people, most of them in Africa, would be enrolled in two groups: those given the drug; and those kept on the standard care of fluids, medication and support. The doctors asked Gorman whether he wanted to be part of the trial. He agreed.

But a computer randomized him to the control group. There would be no ZMapp for him.


41 posted on 04/09/2020 11:49:13 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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