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by mulvya 1833 days ago
These Phase III vaccine trials also do weekly symptom monitoring. In order to qualify for lab evaluation for COVID-19, there's criteria for how many symptoms are required and for how long.

The Pfizer trial results were based on 170 confirmed cases but there were “3410 total cases of suspected, but unconfirmed covid-19 in the overall study population, 1594 occurred in the vaccine group vs. 1816 in the placebo group.”[1]

[1]: https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-...

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> there's criteria for how many symptoms are required and for how long.

Interesting, why? In the UK at least, they now hand out Covid tests like candy.