Vijay Sikand

Ethically, I'm not the one who did her consent or gave her the shots.

And in the pediatric study which followed, both of my kids received the vaccine.

And I didn't know and they didn't know whether they were getting vaccine or placebo.

Oh, I had neighbors.

All manner of people.

I had people, you know, the lady who ran the donut shop across the road.

She would, of course, bring donuts every time we...

I have to mention this.

Years later, my son came home and told me he's getting married, and the woman he was marrying was one of those kids from the vaccine study from 15 years earlier.

Wow.

It's a small world, and it's fun, and it connects you to people.

Yes, in a way it did, because I was pleasantly surprised to see that so many people would turn out to stick their arms out and have a needle stuck in them.

So we gave half the patients a placebo, and we gave half the patients the actual Lyme disease vaccine.

And

I didn't know what they were getting, vaccine or placebo.

It's what we call a double-blind study.

It's the gold standard for studies.

And then we followed these individuals for a couple of years through tick seasons.

We checked them closely to see if they got symptoms of Lyme disease.

We checked them in the most...