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by joachimma 2011 days ago
Yes, young and strong, male (to avoid risk of pregnancy)
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This is a gross overstatement.

They excluded a very tiny part of the population (my guess is under 0.1%), nowadays you cant find a material that no one is allergic to.

The question GP answered was whether this was normal procedure for vaccine trials, not what happened during this particular one.
Pfitzer and Moderna vaccines were tested on both males and females.