Inside the Race to the Coronavirus Vaccine with Brendan Borrell
Inquiring Minds
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Is a Hundred Micrograms Too High?
When mederna first went into its phase wen n clinical trials, these would he small safety trials that began on march sixteenth. They give the people the lowest dose that might think might work, 25 micrograms. And then adually, they start to sort of go to higher and higher doses,. This is sort of the process of finding the optimal dose. So they go up to 250 micrograms, ten times the lowest dose. People were just knocked out with their second dose. An they knew it was safe, they knew t was effective, so they went thatfiser kind of got scared away from a higher dose earlier on.
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