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Vinay Prasad on the Pandemic

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Do You Think Randomization Is a Good Idea?

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There's still a large group that thinks it's a good idea, and they're doing it. But i think all the usual barriers to randomization are not present. If you give it to a kid, i have no confidence that you lower severe disease. I mean, there's just no signal. And then the last bit o neance is, since these vaccine trials have been going on, kids have been getting infected with covid. At least 75 % of kids in this age group have already gotten coved. It's very difficult to take a kid who's already at low risk, who already had covet and already did well, and give them a vaccine that will even lower

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