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Thanks for the valid correction.

I didn’t mean to be disingenuous. I forgot they rejected that dosage.

Overall, the picture does look potentially concerning for the side effects of that vaccine and efficacy is still unclear.



What makes it concerning? Tylenol is concerning if you take 2.5x the safe dose. Of course the efficacy is unclear — it’s still in trials!


There was a pretty high severe systemic adverse rate in the high dose group (20%). Severe local response rate was 5% in the middle dose. [1]

I have no idea how this compares to other vaccines, and you can pessimistically extrapolate a bit from this tiny, healthy sample from the high dose (n=15 in middle dose group).

I'd imagine some % of people when this scales to millions will have a bad response, and the high dose group might provide some model of the worst cases.

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2022483


I think the comparison most are making is to Shingrix. Have a look at Table 2[1].

[1] https://www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1056/NEJMoa1603800




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