FaceDeer , 5 months ago

I've seen news of other experiments like this where once the treatment was so obviously working they flipped the placebo group over to the treatment as well out of compassionate grounds, but perhaps in this case the treatment is so expensive right now that they simply didn't have the resources to do that. So perhaps they went "our grant allows us to produce at most X number of doses of the real treatment for this, so let's take on 2X patients for it," and ended up saving the largest number of people they could have.