The big difference is the flu vaccine ranged from 19%-49% effective over the past five years.
Surely, the COVID19 vaccine will be more effective.
Posted on 11/28/2020 8:18:19 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Everyone is anxiously waiting for a COVID-19 vaccine. But as the world’s most cutting-edge drugmakers race towards the finish line, things have gotten complicated.
In the U.S., there are four companies that are in the final stage of testing their COVID-19 vaccines: Moderna, Pfizer, AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson. All of them have reported side effects in trial participants after giving the shots. Two companies—AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson—have paused phase 3 human testing in the U.S. after several volunteers fell so ill that it worried health regulators.
It’s not uncommon for vaccines to induce adverse responses in healthy people. Most of them will still make it past the FDA as long as the discomfort is mild and temporary. Yet, it’s something the public needs to know before taking any vaccine, especially one for a highly contagious virus like COVID-19, which would require vast adoption to stem its spread.
Last month, Luke Hutchison, a 44-year-old volunteer in Moderna’s phase 3 trial, said he’d had a mild fever after taking the first shot of Moderna’s mRNA-1273 vaccine, and “full-on COVID-like symptoms” after the second shot.
Received my booster shot for the #Moderna #vaccine Stage 3 clinical trial. Experienced mild fever after the 1st shot, but full-on #COVID-like symptoms for 12hrs after the 2nd shot. Fever, chills, muscle and joint aches, really hot hands and feet, headache, general malaise, cough.
— Luke Hutchison (@LH) September 17, 2020
Another volunteer, Jack Morningstar, a college student from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, said he’d experienced fatigue after the first dose and a fever after the second. However, because the trial was double-blind, he wouldn’t know if he got the real vaccine or just placebo until the vaccine cleared FDA authorization.
Two other participants in Moderna’s study experienced similar side effects, according to CNBC. But they declined to go on the record. Hutchinson said he decided to go public about it because he was concerned that Moderna might not fully inform the public about its vaccine’s potential side effects.
Last Wednesday, Pfizer said in a report that some participants in the company’s late-stage trials had experienced mild side effects after getting the first shot of the vaccine and that fewer participants reported side effects after taking the second shot.
“Systemic events (fatigue, headache, chills, muscle pain and joint paint) were reported in small numbers of younger recipients of [the second shot],” Pfizer said in a report published in The New England Journal of Medicine. “But no severe systemic events were reported by older recipients of this vaccine candidate.”
Two trial participants said they experienced “slight flu symptoms” immediately after each of the two shots in August. A few volunteers in the younger group reported redness and swelling at the injection site.
At least two participants in AstraZeneca’s phase 3 trial experienced transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord, after receiving the company’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine.
The British pharma company halted testing globally last month after the first case of transverse myelitis was reported. On September 11, AstraZeneca published a report saying “there was insufficient evidence to say for certain that the illnesses were or were not related to the vaccine.”
The company has resumed phase 3 trials in the U.K., Brazil, South Africa and India, but not yet in the U.S.
Johnson & Johnson paused its phase 3 vaccine trial (ENSEMBLE) last week after a volunteer experienced unexplained illness after receiving the shot.
The company didn’t disclose what the illness was due to privacy agreements with the participant. It’s also unclear whether the sick participant was in the actual vaccine group or in the placebo group.
“The participant’s illness is being reviewed and evaluated by the ENSEMBLE independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) as well as our internal clinical and safety physicians,” Johnson & Johnson said in a statement. “Adverse events—illnesses, accidents, etc.—even those that are serious, are an expected part of any clinical study, especially large studies.”
This story has been updated as of November 16, 2020
Bump
The side effects won’t affect me...I’m not getting it.
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Which ones do not use aborted baby parts?
That’s all right, I’ll just stick with my:
Vit. A 25,000 - Vit. D3 5,000 - Zinc 50mg - and Vit. C 1,000
This formula has kept me in great immune shape since 1994.
“chills, fevers, headache, shortness of breath, pain in the arm”
The side effects are worse than COVID. They might as well print out “patient may feel an alien bursting out of his/hers ribcage”.
The big difference is the flu vaccine ranged from 19%-49% effective over the past five years.
Surely, the COVID19 vaccine will be more effective.
lol
Why would I take a vaccine for an asymptomatic disease when the vaccine will make me sick?
Why not just take vitamin d like top virologists suggest?
Its cheaper, works better and keeps you from getting sick.
I must admit that in all fairness that I did get sick when my wife had Covid In March even with vitamin D. I had a slight fever for two hours. First time I was sick in 20 years since I stopped taking vaccines.
BOOKbump
Okay. So long as I don’t get sick.
That's not how it works.
Screw vaccines
Right. Screw Trump and Operation Warp Speed.
Sounds similar to the shingles vaccine
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