Pfizer to offer COVID-19 vaccines to trial participants who received placebo

Pfizer is giving participants in its COVID-19 vaccine trials the option to learn whether they received the vaccine or a placebo and is offering vaccinations to those who received the placebo, the drugmaker announced Jan. 1.

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The initiative, called the Vaccine Transition Option, gives trial participants ages 16 years and older who received a placebo the option to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine while remaining in the study. 

Participants in the placebo arm who want to receive the vaccine will be scheduled for an in-person visit, during which the study physician will provide and explain a new informed consent document.

The drugmaker hopes to administer first doses to all participants in the placebo arm who opt to get the vaccine by March 1.

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