Quiz 2

 

ACCHS BIOCHEMISTRY Fall 2020

Class Quiz – COVID-19 Phase 3 Trials

Your Name:Scott

Today’s Date:

1. “The (UAE) government has “approved vaccine for emergency use following successful phase III trials,” Director of Strategic Communications for the UAE’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hend al-Otaiba tweeted. The trials had been jointly operated by UAE’s G42 company and China’s Sinopharm.”(UAE approves vaccine by G42 and China’s Sinopharm) 

  In the past week we now have an “approved vaccine for emergency use” – have your own views on this changed with this news?

My views have not changed on this, I still think that any vaccine that comes out, and was made in a hurry, is something that I have a hard time putting my trust into.  

2. “Kaptchuk said that some patients even requested more pills after the trial was over”

(Can placebo pills help cancer survivors manage fatigue?)

is there a “placebo effect” involved, in your opinion, when a patient visits your office? 

I do believe that there is some type of placebo in any type of medication.  If the mind believes it can heal, then it will.  Whether it is taking the proper medication or taking a placebo. As for when a patient visits the office, they are already in a mindset that the needles and herbs will help, and they also have no idea if the needles were in the right acupuncture points or not.  But if the herbs are wrong,  they will know, but as for the needles, its meeting in the middle.

3. “While encouraged by their findings, the couple said much more work needs to be done before testing the drug on people to build up muscle and bone, without serious side effects.” (‘Mighty mice’ stay musclebound in space, boon for astronauts)

Would you consider this a “boon”? 

Hard to say, it sure seems like a pretty heavy manipulation of the human body, and how long can each person take that kind of treatment ?  "without serious side effects" ...  well what are the non-serious side effects?

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