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How were the COVID vaccines tested?

Health care workers answer questions about the COVID-19 vaccines.


Noha Aboelata, MD explains how the COVID vaccines were tested, and the vaccine development process.

 

The process was a randomized double-blinded control trial. So half of the people got the vaccine, half of the people did not get the vaccine and then they checked on how people would, how did they feel, what were their symptoms or their side effects? And then most importantly, did they get COVID-19? And then how sick did you get? And I think that was one of the most remarkable things about the vaccine is that none of them died from COVID-19 and none of them got severely ill from COVID-19.

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