Pfizer MATISSE Trial Targets Pregnant Women for Bivalent RSV Vaccine

Written by Dr Peter McCullough MD, MPH on April 29, 2023. Posted in Current News

Vaccine ideology or hubris appears everywhere! Never had we heard so much about vaccines in our day to day life as laypersons or as healthcare professionals

This certainly is the case for respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) which is largely an infantile problem easily treated with nebulizers when it occurs.

Now Pfizer is aggressively testing their investigational bivalent RSV prefusion protein vaccine which contains stabilized preF glycoproteins from the two main cocirculating antigenic subgroups (RSV A and RSV B). Is this really needed?

Should pregnant women be put at risk even before product launch for the general childhood population?

We can see now that emboldened Pfizer is breaking new ground with clinical trials in late term pregnancy.

The MATISSE Study group conducted a phase 3, double-blind trial where they randomly assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, pregnant women at 24 through 36 weeks’ gestation to receive a single intramuscular injection of 120 μg of a bivalent RSV prefusion F protein–based (RSVpreF) vaccine or placebo.

The main primary efficacy end point occurred in <two percent at all time points and was defined as medically attended severe RSV-associated lower respiratory tract illness within 90, 120, 150, and 180 days after birth.

A lower boundary of the confidence interval for vaccine efficacy (99.5 percent confidence interval [CI] at 90 days; 97.58 percent CI at later intervals) greater than 20 percent was considered to meet the success criterion for vaccine efficacy with respect to the primary end point.

This is far lower than a reasonable acceptance limit of 50 percent for the lower bound. As you can see at all times, the real effect size could have been lower than 50 percent.

When outcomes are sparse, the point of central tendency is a statistical blur, hence we must rely on the bounds of the confidence limits.

Additionally, protection waned rapidly after birth and was not demonstrated to last 12 months.

Kampmann B, Madhi SA, Munjal I, Simões EAF, Pahud BA, Llapur C, Baker J, Pérez Marc G, Radley D, Shittu E, Glanternik J, Snaggs H, Baber J, Zachariah P, Barnabas SL, Fausett M, Adam T, Perreras N, Van Houten MA, Kantele A, Huang LM, Bont LJ, Otsuki T, Vargas SL, Gullam J, Tapiero B, Stein RT, Polack FP, Zar HJ, Staerke NB, Duron Padilla M, Richmond PC, Koury K, Schneider K, Kalinina EV, Cooper D, Jansen KU, Anderson AS, Swanson KA, Gruber WC, Gurtman A; MATISSE Study Group. Bivalent Prefusion F Vaccine in Pregnancy to Prevent RSV Illness in Infants. N Engl J Med. 2023 Apr 20;388(16):1451-1464. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2216480. Epub 2023 Apr 5. PMID: 37018474.

In summary, Pfizer has aggressively advanced RCTs into the pregnant population with no assurances on long term outcomes. Furthermore, they moved the goal posts to make it easer to have a successful trial.

We should demand long-term safety, high efficacy (>50 percent VE as lower bound of CI), and at least one year of durability, for such a rare and easy-to-treat condition.

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