
Vaccine trial participant and CNN correspondent's big reveal. Was it the placebo or the real thing?
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Months after CNN correspondent Stephanie Elam started the vaccine trial, she finds out if she really got the J&J shot.
But this appointment is going to be different. Since my last check-up, Johnson & Johnson has been granted emergency use authorization for its single-shot Covid vaccine. As a thank you for those of us who participated in the randomized, phase three vaccine trial, the company is unblinding participants and administering the vaccine to the placebo group. I am looking forward to this unblinding with the same exuberance I had as a kid the week of Christmas. All of those presents under the tree just waiting to be opened! But this time, my present is protection against a deadly virus -- an inoculation that is literally saving lives.
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