Posted on 08/01/2020 10:27:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A highly anticipated clinical trial for a potential COVID-19 vaccine managed in part by the American drug company Moderna has resulted is some adverse effects in more than half of the trial's participants, with one test group reporting "severe" symptoms.
The trial, which is also being sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, administered the vaccine "as a 0.5-ml injection in the deltoid muscle" in two shots spaced about one month apart. Two separate groups received 25-microgram and 100-microgram doses, respectively. A third group with a 250-microgram dose was subsequently added.
The vaccine "induced anti–SARS-CoV-2 immune responses in all participants," the research team reported Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. Researchers said that "no trial-limiting safety concerns were identified." Yet a majority of participants still reported at least one side effect.
"Solicited adverse events that occurred in more than half the participants included fatigue, chills, headache, myalgia, and pain at the injection site," the report states. Fever, joint pain and nausea were also reported.
Side effects grew more common with more (and larger) injections, the scientists write: "Systemic adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-μg dose group reported one or more severe adverse events."
Notably, every participant in the two larger-dose groups reported adverse reactions after their second injections. One study participant in the smallest-dose group, meanwhile, was removed due to having developed hives after the first round of injections.
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And a poor one at that. You can tell the rest not to even bother coming here with their drivel as well.
And there are no vaccines for the 150+ rhinioviruses. For a reason - rhinoviruses cause a short term discomfort and then resolve spontaneously. They are not a mortal threat. Same with most of the other caronaviruses.
Covid19 is not like the rhinoviruses or other caronaviruses and so we have now a Manhattan Project scale program to develop vaccines.
Necessity is the mother of invention.
Thanks Karen for being such an eloquent and masterful conversationalist. Who made you the jello sheriff here?
I don't know who 2aProtects is but not that long ago you were a newbie here and if you received the kind of bitchiness you are emoting it would have been a bad thing.
If you have some opinions based on any of your immunological insights then please state them. Otherwise just continue with your impressive bitchings.
old article from 7/15/2020 ... incorrect date on post ... this is old news ...
RE: old article from 7/15/2020 ... incorrect date on post ... this is old news
Not so old. Has anything changed in two weeks to make the information posted inaccurate?
“Has anything changed in two weeks to make the information posted inaccurate?”
totally ... that was an early test on a few dozen people ... Moderna is now testing on thousands of people, so they’ll be new stats, for good or bad ...
yadda yadda bladda bladda.
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