Reply #5: There was a week between the adult and child trials....

[CoffeeCat]

The adult H1N1 clinical trials started, and then a week later, the children's clinical
trials started.

In my opinion, a week is not a lot of time.

What about any long-term effects? Those are definitely unknown.

So far...so good--but I don't think we can imply that this vaccine is "safe", so therefore
they moved onto the children. The CDC is calling this a "compressed clinical trial" meaning that
they're doing this in a very short amount of time. Shorter than usual.

Here's a link about the compressed adult/kid's trials. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em0Sojdmduc

(Also, I'd like to know more about the vaccine. Is this live flu that is being injected? It is a
combination of bird, pig and human? If so, has that ever been done before?).