I am in a COVID -19 vaccine trial for the Phase III

[Drahthaardogs]

Single blinded! Wish me luck! I get vaccinated in 2 weeks!

[marybourg]

1. Which vaccine is it?

[Drahthaardogs]

3. Don't know until I get there

I'll let you know.

[marybourg]

6. Good luck! And thanks! You're a hero, too.

[lark]

13. Please do let us know, I'm very curious.

Thanks!

[triron]

20. So can you also get the placebo?

[Drahthaardogs]

22. Yep

I am blind. I won’t know

[soothsayer]

2. Wow! Good luck!

Ooh I hope it’s paid

[Drahthaardogs]

4. It is, but I'm doing this for the science

I'm a toxicologist and feel it's the right thing to do

[mr_lebowski]

10. Does this trial then include them exposing you to the virus in large quantities to see if

you come down with COVID-19?

[marybourg]

16. No. That's a "challenge" and is not approved.

[grantcart]

18. No that's why it is single blinded

There can be no double blinded studies, cannot ethically expose trial participants to a deadly virus

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

32. Ummm, what exactly is a single blind study?

A double blind study usually means that neither the doctor giving the trial medicine, vaccine in this case, not the participant, knows if they've gotten the real thing or the placebo. There is nothing about "challenging" with exposure to whatever. You simply wait and see if fewer of those who actually got the real thing came down with the disease less, or had a better outcome when testing a medication.

"Challenges" are not common in double blind studies.

Added on edit:

Which is why it is going to take a long time to actually get a vaccine. You're in the trial, but presumably you personally are going to continue to social distance, wear a mask, and so on.

Perhaps they should be testing this vaccine on young people who all then go out to the bars and don't mask or social distance.

[Drahthaardogs]

33. I won't know if I got placebo or the real vaccine

But the doctor will.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

53. But the doctor will.

Thank you for clarifying that.

Unfortunately, if the doctor knows which you've gotten, the results are less reliable than in a double blind study.

As someone who will happily take a good vaccine if we ever get one, I will not be fully trusting of the single blind result. There's a reason that double blind is the gold standard.

[Drahthaardogs]

54. They will test my blood for antibodies

They either exist or they don't.

[warmfeet]

44. Thank you. K & R

[blm]

5. Good luck 🍀

[cilla4progress]

7. Thank you!

[samnsara]

8. COOL!!!! i would do that in a nano second!!!

[tblue37]

9. Good luck--and thanks for your contribution! nt

[CentralMass]

11. Good luck and thank you.

[Nevilledog]

12. May the odds be ever in your favor.

[SoonerPride]

14. Nice one!

[Nevilledog]

15. ..

[grantcart]

17. Good for you, but it has to be single blinded

Don't know how they will rate the degree of virus exposure

[applegrove]

19. Heroism still exists!!!

[triron]

21. What state are you in?

[Drahthaardogs]

23. Can't say

I’m in the Midwest

[snacker]

24. Thank you.

Good luck!

[NightWatcher]

25. Thank you for your service to Civilization

I hope you feel no ill side effects.

[Skittles]

26. you have......er, guts

no WAY would I volunteer to do such a thing while Donald Fucking Trump is "president"

[Drahthaardogs]

27. I trust scientists

I am one!

[warmfeet]

46. Thank you again.

[pnwmom]

28. Thank you. You're one of the heroes! n/t

[Mersky]

29. Cooool

I am in awe. Thank you for doing this.

[MontanaMama]

30. Best wishes and thank you

for taking one for the team!

[rurallib]

31. What can I say but thank you. People like you are so essential to making a vaccination possible

[a kennedy]

34. Ditto to all that has been said here.........

Thank you, good luck, and.

[JDC]

35. Great work and thank you

[moonscape]

36. Do you know the size of the study? And ...

ty for doing this. Scientists rock!

[Drahthaardogs]

37. I don't. The woman who enrolled me said

I would get a lot more information when I arrive for the vaccine.

I am really EXCITED!

[GulfCoast66]

38. You sir, or Madam, are a true hero.

You meet all the definitions.

As a fellow science major I salute you. Unfortunately I have issues that make me ineligible. The largest one being my wife!

Thank you.

[PTWB]

43. I hope she doesn't see this post!

My wife would kill me if I talked about her that way.

[GulfCoast66]

48. Oh, she would agree. She would not let me do it.

Well, of course we do not control each other. But after 30+ years we generally try to insure we are on the same page with big decisions. Like when I wanted a convertible. Yeah, still in the truck!

Thanks again.

[Xipe Totec]

39. Godspeed! nt

[Hip2bSquare]

40. True Patriot

Not all heroes wear capes. Definitely brave and pulling for you.

[Dem2theMax]

41. On behalf of everybody on the planet,

THANK YOU!!

[eppur_se_muova]

42. Good luck to you. I signed up for one, but they seem to have enough volunteers in this area already.

Like you, I'm a scientist, so I felt a need to participate. Having second thoughts, though, as my elderly mother now has no one else to depend on.

Still waiting to see if that phone call/email ever arrives.

[Drahthaardogs]

45. Honestly, it's a killed virus (I know that much)

I feel the risk is minimal but the rewards are HUGE! It's a no brainier! Gotta do it!

[reACTIONary]

47. Fantastic. Someone asked me if I would do it...

... and I told them I would without even thinking about it. Wish I had been asked to participate.

[Cousin Dupree]

49. Thank you from an ex research nurse!

[DesertRat]

50. Good luck and thank you! k&r

[brer cat]

51. Best wishes for a very good outcome.

I appreciate your dedication to science and willingness to participate in this trial.

[GeoWilliam750]

52. Indeed, let us know the result

[Heartstrings]

55. Thank you! Nt

[hamsterjill]

56. Thank you much.

I’ve lost two people in my circle of friends and a third person that I know from my outer circle is in the hospital, on a vent and not expected to make it.

We need some progress forward and I appreciate your selflessness.

[moonscape]

57. You must've gotten your vaccine by now and yes,

I'm keeping track

Anything you've learned that you're able to tell us? Is this the Moderna one with 30K participants?

[Drahthaardogs]

58. I have not yet.

They are running a little behind. I talked to them earlier this week. I'll let you know when it happens.