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Suppose you want to find out what kinds of kids are included in vaccine clinical trials evaluating vaccine safety and effectiveness. Is it an accurate representation of the population of kids that will be receiving the vaccines? What was used as the placebo?
One option for finding this information is going over to clinicaltrials.gov and using their search function. If you were wondering about Prevnar, you’d want to use the search words:
pneumococcal conjugate vaccine safety
That search takes you here. The second study down is this one, an evaluation of the “new” (13 valent)Prevnar that will soon be released, where you can see that the “placebo” is the “original Prevnar”, and the “inclusion and exclusion criteria” for the study are described as:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Healthy 2-month-old infants.
- Available for the entire study period.
Exclusion criteria: