Posted on 04/29/2020 10:22:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Oxford University scientists who have already begun testing a potential coronavirus vaccine in humans say they believe that, if proven successful, it might be available as early as September. The vaccine, which is being developed by the Jenner Institute and Oxford Vaccine Group, began clinical trials last week.
“Personally I have a high degree of confidence about this vaccine because it’s technology that I’ve used before,” Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at Oxford University, told CBS News.
Gilbert was referring to success the team, which began working on potential vaccine in January, has previously seen in using a similar vaccine on a previous coronavirus strand. The success helped catapult them ahead of dozens of other labs who are still tinkering with safety before advancing to clinical trials involving humans.
The vaccine has also reportedly seen success in monkeys, signaling the promising potential for humans, according to The New York Times. In Montana, scientists from the National Institutes of Health’s Rocky Mountain Laboratory injected six rhesus macaque monkeys with a single dose of that vaccine last month, and then exposed them to heavy doses of COVID-19. About a month later, researchers said the monkeys remained healthy.
“The rhesus macaque is pretty much the closest thing we have to humans,” Dr. Vincent Munster, who is involved in the research, told The Times.
The vaccine is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus, or adenovirus, from chimpanzees and has been “genetically changed so that it is impossible for it to grow in humans,” according to a statement from the University Hospital Southampton, which is also helping to conduct the trial.
“This has been combined with genes that make proteins from the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) called spike glycoprotein which play an essential role in the infection pathway of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,”
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If true it will either be a placebo or something very dangerous. Total face-saving measure by failed public health bureaucrats.
I’ll pass.
Wonder if it will take a FOIA inquiry to see the VAERS reports on the vax effects?
Unless, of course, Joe and Michelle win. In which case, shutting down the economy would be viewed as an over-reaction.
Are SARAH GILBERT and OXFORD UNIVERSITY scientists going to be the first recipients of the COVID 19 vaccine?
Even this virus research is spooky.
Combining genes and modifying others...extracting some from Chimps?
Geez.
Somehow, someway, mankind has to get a handle on these mad scientists.
But I don’t know that it can be done.
In the past...we've accepted 25% effective, 48% effective etc....
Right..... just surrender your liberty for a few weeks, errr months, wait there’s a vaccine, wait just a few more months. We are all going to be saved, praise be to the Experts and our government.
Oh shoot. There is no immunity. We are all gonna die unless we lockdown forever.
What’s a hysterical Freeper to do?
“...if proven successful, it might be available as early as September”
IF
RE: IF
What else is she going to say?
“What’s a hysterical Freeper to do?”
Push the limits imposed on you every day, and in every way you can.
Resist. Make it hard for them every single step of the way.
That is nice. I will NOT be getting it. Go ahead and knock yourselves out, though.
Exactly.
Go be hysterical somewhere else.
Can you imagine the effect of a dangerously flawed vaccine, hastily and ill-advisedly pushed out to millions of frightened people?
We could only wish they would.
Did my part. Traveled across 4 states. Did a residential construction job. Stayed in a hotel. Shopped maskless at the big boxes. Even sat down and are inside a “to-go only” restaurant.
I spent 15 years working for two of the world’s largest Pharma companies. You couldn’t pay me to take this vaccine. It is being developed much too fast.
I’m not anti-vaccine. This thing needs many years on the market before we will undertands its effectiveness and side effects.
I’m sure our Fuhrer in NJ will require it in schools but my son will not be getting it under any circumstances.
RE: Did my part. Traveled across 4 states. Did a residential construction job. Stayed in a hotel. Shopped maskless at the big boxes. Even sat down and are inside a “to-go only” restaurant.
Have you had yourself tested?
I think there are enough Fearbros, Fearbras, and stupid progressives to exhaust the initial vaccine supplies. Will provide a huge experiment with lots of willing lab rats. May even cause some herd thinning.
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