What? It's an adaptive trial design, not a criminal act.
The vaccine was effective/safe enough that it would cause more harm to leave them unvaccinated. If anything it means that there's more points of safety data by doing it this way.
Not very happy about the use of 'criminal' by the original source, but you are sadly missing the point. NONE of the kids in the Pfizer FDA clinical test developed severe covid. Not the vaccinated kids, not the unvaccinated kids. There was ZERO medical reason to vaccinate the control arm of the trial. Given that the two major concerns around covid vaccine are a. effectiveness fading over time and b. lifetime OAS, makes you wonder.
> COVID-19 rates in children ages 5 to 11 are so low that there were ZERO cases of severe COVID-19 and ZERO cases of death from COVID in either the treatment (n= 1,518) or control group (n= 750).
The vaccine was effective/safe enough that it would cause more harm to leave them unvaccinated. If anything it means that there's more points of safety data by doing it this way.