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23. Is the Placebo Effect for Real?

Freakonomics, M.D.

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Vaccines and the Cova 19 Pandemic

Some research suggests that up to 50 % of doctors use placibos regularly, either actual sugar pills or drugs like over the counter medications or vitamens. Ted and several colleagues recently published a new paper in the journal jamma network open that looked at adverse side effects of the cova 19 vaccine. They found that among tens of thousands of vaccine trial participants, a third of those who received a fakue shot a placibo still reported feeling some sort of adverse symptom. For some theapies? It's hard to know if the side effects are related to the drug or, in this case, the vaccine.

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