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(READ) Did AstraZeneca mislead on Covid vaccine effectiveness?

Dated: March 23, 2021 by Sharyl Attkisson 4 Comments

      

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The following is an excerpt from an article in The Washington Post.

In an extraordinary turn of events, an independent panel that safeguards the integrity of clinical trials wrote to AstraZeneca and U.S. government officials late Monday expressing concern and disappointment that the drugmaker presented โ€œoutdated and potentially misleadingโ€ data on its coronavirus vaccine making the shots appear more effective than shown by fuller data.

Read AstraZeneca's effectiveness claims here.

The letter, from 11 leading statisticians, infectious-disease physicians and ethics experts appointed by the National Institutes of Health to review the trial data for all the major coronavirus vaccines supported by the federal government, says the companyโ€™s decision puts the vaccine in the most favorable light โ€” a grave scientific misstep that could erode trust in the vaccine.

The letter is a rare window into the typically confidential interactions between a company and the Data and Safety Monitoring Board that polices the integrity of the data. (Continued...)

Read the full Washington Post article here.

Meantime, AstraZeneca released the following statement:

The numbersย publishedย yesterday were based on a pre-specified interim analysis with a data cut-off of 17 February.

We have reviewed the preliminary assessment of the primary analysis and the results were consistent with the interim analysis. We are now completing the validation of the statistical analysis.

We will immediately engage with the independent data safety monitoring board (DSMB) to share our primary analysis with the most up to date efficacy data. We intend to issue results of the primary analysis within 48 hours.


      
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  1. Jim says

    March 23, 2021 at 6:29 pm

    What vaccine? I thought they made another mRNA gene therapy? And was it actually tested for and intended to prevent the contraction or transmission of covid 19?

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    • Virginia says

      March 23, 2021 at 9:07 pm

      "It uses a replication-deficient chimpanzee viral vector based on a weakened version of a common cold virus (adenovirus) that causes infections in chimpanzees and contains the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein." from the link to the paper on effectiveness. It is not an mRna experimental therapy.

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  2. Kevin Killion says

    March 23, 2021 at 7:46 pm

    Iโ€™m surprised there hasnโ€™t been more said about the original Pfizer report to the FDA. Yes, the vaccine is extremely effective at what itโ€™s supposed to do, But thereโ€™s other really surprising discoveries.

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