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Pfizer Offers Covid Shots to Health Workers Who Got Placebo Bloomberg 12/16/2020 Riley Griffin and John Lauerman © Bloomberg A heath worker injects the 'Gam-COVID-Vac', also known as 'Sputnik V', COVID-19 vaccine, developed by the Gamaleya National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), into a patients arm during a post-registration phase trial at the City Clinic #46 in Moscow, Russia, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. The Russian Direct Investment Fund will sell 32 million doses of Sputnik V to Mexico, with deliveries...

Previous to Holiday Vanchiere plans to vaccinate the rest of the eligible and interested placebo-group participants before the upcoming holiday. The trial site has 20 appointment slots available a day. Placebo groups provide a critical point of comparison in gold-standard clinical trials, allowing researchers to study long-term side effects over time. Over the last few months, however, U.S. regulators, drugmakers, and trial participants have engaged in an ethical debate over whether or not to provide protection to all those who joined the clinical trial. Ultimately, offering broader protectio...