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Nov 30, 2020Liked by zeynep

It's a very important story to tell, and I didn't know of it. Thank you.

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Extraordinary, moving story. This line “I asked Eddie to give me one minute to think,’” Zhang recalls. “Then I said ok.” had me in tears.

One minor technical point: the 0 serious cases in the vaccine arm are consistent at the conventional 95% confidence level with an expectation value up to ~3. And the other mRNA vaccine did have 1 serious case out of 10. Overall 1/40 for the two combined. So very likely this will also have an excellent but not 100% effect on reducing serious cases.

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Thank you for telling this story

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This article is not only inspiring and exciting it also raises the question of the ethics behind medical scientists waiting to disclose important information whether for $ profit or for advantages of holding info until publication.

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