Brazil to start testing Oxford vaccine against the Coronavirus this month

Reuters ^ | 06/12/2020 | Eduardo Simoes

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SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazil this month will start testing an experimental vaccine against the novel coronavirus being developed by researchers at the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca Plc (AZN.L), Brazil’s health surveillance agency Anvisa and the Federal University of Sao Paulo (Unifesp) said.

Anvisa authorized the testing late on Tuesday. Some 2,000 people will participate in the trial, which will be conducted with the support of the Health Ministry, Unifesp said.

“The most important thing is to carry out this stage of the study now, when the epidemiological curve is still rising and the results may be more assertive,” said Lily Yin Weckx, coordinator of the Reference Center for Special Immunobiologicals (CRIE) at Unifesp.

Developers and researchers are looking to COVID-19 hotspots, such as Latin America and Africa, where the illness is still on the rise, to test experimental vaccines as cases wane in Europe and elsewhere.

There are currently no approved vaccines to prevent infection with the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. The virus has infected more than 6.4 million people and killed over 380,000 worldwide.

Weckx is leading the study in Brazil, Unifesp said in a statement.

For testing in Sao Paulo, Brazil’s largest state and the epicenter of the coronavirus outbreak in Latin America, 1,000 volunteers will be selected. The study is looking for people highly exposed to the coronavirus but who were not yet infected.

Anvisa said the testing request in Brazil was filed by the local unit of AstraZeneca.

[Gay State Conservative]

It’s winter in Brazil right now...not that winter means anything there...so this could be interesting.

[poinq]

No need, just stop Statins in your country. You will find that lipitor usage makes the corona virus 10 times more deadly. So stop taking lipitor or any other statin if you want to stay alive.

[gas_dr]

I really think you should not give medical advice unless you are a licensed physician and that the advice is actually in the mainstream of at least somewhat supported evidence based medicine.

[House Atreides]

“No need, just stop Statins in your country. You will find that lipitor usage makes the corona virus 10 times more deadly. So stop taking lipitor or any other statin if you want to stay alive.”
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Do you have a link to some actual current documentation that this is a fact?

[poinq]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXtdp4BNyOg

This is not the only one. But it explains the issue pretty well. Start around 10 minutes in and watch through 15 minutes. The point is not that Statins are bad for you. This doctor is trying to point out that LDL is not bad if you eat right. And that LDL actually helps with diseases like the Corona virus.

However you could overlay the use of statins world wide with the high death rates and I think you would find they correspond quite well. Statins are perscribed in the highest amounts to American men over 40. Those are also the highest death rates. Second is European men and then women from both areas.

This is not to say that low LDL causes death with the corona virus. It just leaves you more susceptible to the worst results.