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The AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn’t Up to Snuff – WIRED
There’s been even more good news this week, this time from the Oxford-AstraZeneca trials. But a closer look reveals some very shaky science.
There were other dosing issues, too, that havent been explained even though dosing is the centerpiece of the press release. There are many different regimens in these trialsthe UK study has more than two dozen arms, meaning the volunteers were divided into that many groups according to age and how much of the vaccine would be administered and when. The doses are measured by the number of altered viral particles they contain, and the developers decided that the standard dose would be 5 x 1010 viral…
