COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Paused, Due To Illness In One Volunteer

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Drug maker AstraZeneca has announced that it is pausing it’s COVID-19 vaccine trial due to a “potentially unexplained illness” in one of the trial volunteers.

The vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford in partnership with Astra Zeneca. It’s being studied in thousands of patients in the United States and the United Kingdom. The illness apparently occurred in a U.K. volunteer.

The company hasn’t revealed the nature of the illness, but did confirm that a pause in vaccination will allow a safety review. “This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said in a statement to NPR.

The next step will be to determine if the illness is indeed related to the vaccine, or just a chance event.

The AstraZeneca/Oxford partnership is one of the vaccine development efforts that is furthest along. The company recently began a Phase 3 trial in the United States that aims to enroll 30,000 volunteers.

The vaccine is what’s known as a non-replicating viral vector vaccine. When injected into a volunteer, it tricks that person’s cells into making a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. That has the effect of prompting the vaccinated person to have an immune reaction that should be protective if the person were exposed to the coronavirus.
 
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COVID-19 Vaccine Trial Paused, Due To Illness In One Volunteer​

A large study of a COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been put on hold after one of the volunteers became ill.

Drug maker AstraZeneca has announced that it is pausing it’s COVID-19 vaccine trial due to a “potentially unexplained illness” in one of the trial volunteers.

The vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford in partnership with Astra Zeneca. It’s being studied in thousands of patients in the United States and the United Kingdom. The illness apparently occurred in a U.K. volunteer.

The company hasn’t revealed the nature of the illness, but did confirm that a pause in vaccination will allow a safety review. “This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials,” an AstraZeneca spokesperson said in a statement to NPR.

The next step will be to determine if the illness is indeed related to the vaccine, or just a chance event.

The AstraZeneca/Oxford partnership is one of the vaccine development efforts that is furthest along. The company recently began a Phase 3 trial in the United States that aims to enroll 30,000 volunteers.

The vaccine is what’s known as a non-replicating viral vector vaccine. When injected into a volunteer, it tricks that person’s cells into making a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. That has the effect of prompting the vaccinated person to have an immune reaction that should be protective if the person were exposed to the coronavirus.
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That’s normal procedure. Good for them that they are following it.
 
Just hoping everything will be a passing episode and unrelated to the vaccine and that they will continue :pray:t2:
It is our closest more available vaccine…down here at the ends of the world.
 
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Trials of UK COVID vaccine derived from aborted baby cell line paused after participant falls ill​

The pharmaceutical company insists that the decision to pause the trials is a 'routine action

Wed Sep 9, 2020 - 5:10 pm EST

By Paul Smeaton

UNITED KINGDOM, September 9, 2020 (LifeSiteNews) — Trials for one of the leading potential coronavirus vaccines, which uses cell lines from an aborted baby, have been temporarily stopped after a trial participant was taken ill.

Astrazeneca, a British pharmaceutical company that has been developing a coronavirus vaccine in collaboration with the University of Oxford, issued a statement yesterday announcing the “voluntary pause of vaccination across all trials.”

While several outlets are describing the incident as a “serious suspected adverse reaction,” Astrazenca’s statement simply refers to it as “a single event of an unexplained illness that occurred in the UK Phase III trial.” Large scale trials of the potential vaccine have also been happening in other parts of the world including South Africa and Brazil.

The New York Times has reported that an anonymous source “familiar with the situation” has told them that “the individual “had received a diagnosis of transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and is often sparked by viral infections.” . . .
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. . . . The vaccine is what’s known as a nonreplicating viral vector vaccine. When injected into a volunteer, it tricks that person’s cells into making a protein from SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. That has the effect of prompting the vaccinated person to have an immune reaction that should be protective if the person were exposed to the coronavirus. . . .
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Sounds like it induces coding for a SARS-CoV-2 foreign (to your body) protein now made by YOU.

Theoretically this stimulates antibodies against this new protein . . . .
and KEEPS stimulating antibodies (because you keep making the protein that is now part of your genetic makeup thus continually stimulating antibodies. At least theoretically.).

BUT!

With this physiologic mechanism this ongoing production (now produced by YOU) of this SARS-CoV-2 protein is basically creating an autoimmune disease in the patient.

What if you get immune suppressed later in life (due to cancer treatment, steroids, etc)?
Then this new foreign corona protein may code unchecked in you.

What are the long term side-effects of an unchecked SARS-CoV-2 protein that YOU are now making in you?

OR . . . .

What if this new protein you are now producing out-paces your immune system to attacking it?

OR . . . .

What if this new protein you are now producing,
later causes an allergic reaction in you?
You can’t stop it once it in INCORPORATED INTO YOUR genetic code.

And WHY use aborted fetal cells? There are plenty of ethical cell lines available.
 
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