As someone very pro-vaccine, what are the risks of doing this? Is the worst case scenario you get the vaccine and not a placebo and it does nothing? Are there real health risks to doing this?
> When I woke up, I woke up this was at noon the next day, I had to get up to go to the bathroom, on the way there I felt really nauseous and actually ended up throwing up in the bathroom and then I just collapsed. I remember waking up on the floor, though, and looking up and seeing the underside of the kitchen table, which was a very confusing sight
So by taking an experimental vaccine you're risking these sorts of side effects. In this particular study there were 45 participants and 3 had severe side effects of this nature.
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Lets say some of these potential vaccines are effective at producing an immune response enough to provide protection from Covid infection, is there a level of side effects that would cause a vaccine to fail clinical trials?