Placebo-Unblinding Should Be Uniform Across COVID Vaccine Trials, Advisory Committee Says
Executive Summary
US FDA’s outside advisors say Moderna should offer vaccine to placebo-arm patients when they are eligible, the same plan adopted for the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
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