Posted on 09/07/2020 4:56:04 AM PDT by Kaslin
Earlier this year during the first week in March we visited Disney in Orlando, Florida. We live in West Palm Beach so it was a mere two-and-a-half hour drive north on Floridas Turnpike to the parks and our hotel.
It was during spring break and the first half of the week was spent entertaining guests from New Jersey who wanted to enjoy the warm weather and attend a couple of spring training games and watch the Astros play the Nationals at Fitteam Ballpark. That left us with only four days to visit two parks so we decided wed go to Disney Studios to check out the new Star Wars attraction and then spend a second day at Epcot.
I had been to Disney many times before but had never seen the parks so crowded. People from all over the world had come to Florida! We waited 90 minutes in one line for a brief 5-minute ride on Han Solos Millennium Falcon.
The main attraction, Galaxys Edge, had such a long waiting list we were placed on standby (and when the ride broke down late in the afternoon, we were forced to give up).
The next day dawned a chilly March morning in the 50s. Epcot turned out to be just as packed as Disney Studios. It was almost impossible to get a seat in a restaurant without having to wait at least a half hour.
We returned to West Palm late Saturday afternoon wondering if wed have another opportunity in the near future to use the third day of our 3-day park passes.
On Sunday I woke up feeling a bit off. By that evening my stomach was upset and I was beginning to feel a wave of fatigue. This continued until Wednesday when I began to spike a low fever of 99.6. My appetite disappeared and I spent most of the next two days struggling to get through my classes despite having slept 10 hours on each of the previous two nights.
I felt better over the weekend but the following week the fever and malaise returned. And Disney had closed all of its parks due to the COVID-19 pandemic, something that was hardly comforting.
By the end of the second week I had fully recovered from whatever it was I had caught without ever developing a cough or losing my sense of taste and smell. But I wondered: Did I have a mild case of COVID-19?
In March it was nearly impossible to be tested for COVID-19 and even less likely to get an antibody test. By May that had changed.
As pleas for convalescent plasma donations from people previously infected mounted, I was finally able to get tested for IgG and IgM COVID-19 antibodies in the hopes of donating blood to perhaps save someones life.
To my disappointment my test came back negative. This was one of the first tests available and it wasnt an FDA authorized test. Perhaps my results were a false negative, I thought.
Five weeks later I was tested again, this time by a different, FDA authorized test. Again, the results came back negative.
Frustrated at not being able to do anything to help those who were sick and dying, I learned that Moderna Inc. was planning phase 3 clinical studies of its mRNA 1273 vaccine in various cities across the U.S. Three studies would take place in south Florida, one of them at the Palm Beach Research Center, a mere five-minute drive from my university office.
After some digging around on the Internet, a Facebook post of mine that got the attention of a journalism student which led to a short interview on WLRN Radio Miami, South Florida, I learned where and how to volunteer.
I became Patient 001 out of the 1,000 the center was looking to sign up for Modernas 2-year phase 3 clinical study of its mRNA-1273 vaccine.
Some of my friends thought I was crazy. That vaccine will re-write your genetic code, one warned on a Facebook post. Youre going to become a 5G cellphone tower, another commented. I hope you dont grow a second head or a third eye, a nurse friend of mine joked.
But I had done my homework. I wasnt about to go into this blindly. I had read about the results of the early stage phase one clinical study where in two weeks after the second dose (day 43), participants receiving the 25 microgram dose of mRNA-1273 had levels of antibodies that bind to the novel coronavirus at similar levels to those seen in patients who have recovered from COVID-19.
While there were reactions to the vaccine nothing unexpected they were mild such as malaise, soreness at the injection site and fevers. No one had experienced a cytokine storm, a potentially deadly immune reaction caused by the bodys own defenses to the virus.
I reported to the center on July 31 for my first visit, a two-hour preliminary screening which included a thorough medical history and a physical exam. During the course of the two hours various health care professionals came into my room and introduced themselves: nurses, doctors, PAs, pharmacists and phlebotomists, all of them gushing with gratitude because I had volunteered for this study. They went out of their way to express this on several occasions. We need to get our lives back, one of the doctors commented. Thank you so much for your willingness to be a part of this study.
I returned the following Monday, for the second two-hour appointment which included another short interview, a COVID-19 nasal swab, a visit to a phlebotomist who cheerfully stuck me with a needle and withdrew eight vials of blood from a vein and, finally, the two pharmacists who administered the first injection into the deltoid muscle of my left arm.
Then I laid down for 30 minutes on a comfortable bed in an examination room to be observed for any adverse reactions. There were none.
Follow-up over the next seven days consisted of daily responses to a series of questions on an e-diary that I had downloaded and installed on my iPhone. The questions addressed possible side effects and I had to take my temperature every morning as well as report on any fatigue, nausea or headaches I experienced.
The only symptoms I experienced after the first injection were a mild headache and slight fatigue the first day in the evening followed by very mild muscle aches the next morning.
I returned to the center on August 28 for my third visit. Again, I was swabbed for COVID-19, donated another eight vials of blood and received my second injection.
The study is a double blind. No one, including the doctors and the pharmacists, are supposed to know whether a patient is receiving the actual mRNA vaccine or sterile saline. But the doctor who is running the study commented to me. I cant believe they would give Patient 001 a placebo.
His intuition may have been correct.
Four hours later I spiked a small fever around the same temperature as I had experienced in March after we had been to Disney for three days. I also experienced mild body aches nothing that interfered with activity but I felt like I needed to lay down and go to bed early.
The next morning, I woke up with mild body aches but I went out and rode 15 miles on my bicycle anyway. Later that evening a low-grade fever returned. By the third day, any side effects to the vaccine were over.
There are several reasons why I am participating in this study. As a citizen I believe this is my civic responsibility. I am old enough to have actually heard President John F. Kennedy utter these famous words in his 1961 inaugural address: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country, a message largely lost on a generation of young people today. I refuse to sit idly by and watch as people my age and older live in fear because of the very real risk of becoming ill and dying just because they went to work or to eat out at a restaurant or go to a family gathering. We know of several families who went through hell on earth as loved ones died alone in hospital intensive care wards.
I am participating in this study because as a scientist, this is history in the making. Although there have been coronavirus vaccines administered to animals for decades, there has never been an mRNA virus successfully developed and approved by the FDA for injection into humans.
And lastly, my faith constrains me to do this. Bible verses such as [W]e who are strong ought to bear the weaknesses of those without strength, and From everyone who has been given much, much will be required, are challenges to live out of my comfort zone to exercise faith, not just talk about it. I dare not compare my efforts to the real heroes the healthcare professionals who have risked their lives on the front lines by running into the middle of this pandemic to save the lives of others. But my involvement, as small as it is, is something.
As one piece of a 30,000-piece jigsaw puzzle, if my involvement facilitates the final approval of a safe and effective vaccine for COVID-19, we will get our lives back again.
Why is the author complaining that the test came back negative? Was he hoping that he had the virus?
Enjoy having your RNA altered...
I think he was hoping he had developed antibodies from being infected, yes
Yes. He was hoping he'd already been thru the disease and he could then donate blood to help others.
school sent into panic...unnecessarily:
7 Sept: 9 News Australia: Breaking News and Live Updates: PM details vaccine; Four new cases in NSW; Victoria records 41 coronavirus cases, 9 deaths; Health Minsiter Greg Hunt’s swipe at Victoria’s roadmap out of lockdown
By Imogen Dewey
(scroll down) BREAKING: Sydney school to reopen after student’s false positive test result
By Luke Cooper 18:09
A Sydney school will reopen tomorrow after it was closed for deep cleaning following the infection of a student, who NSW Health has now confirmed does not have COVID-19...
“Lidcombe Public School will resume on-campus learning on Tuesday, 8 September 2020 after NSW Health informed us that the student, who initially tested positive over the weekend, does not have COVID-19,” the statement said.
“Staff and students who were identified as close contacts have been notified and no longer need to isolate.”...
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-australia-live-updates-september-7-daniel-andrews-victoria-roadmap-lockdown-exit-scott-morrison-nsw-mystery-cases-covid19/e6707b03-cc9f-48a9-9eed-f04a67c416e1
“...there has never been an mRNA virus successfully developed and approved by the FDA for injection into humans.”
That’s just so encouraging. /s
VIDEO: 3m53s: 7 Sept: Adelaide Advertiser: Australians are unaware only nine per cent of COVID deaths caused solely by virus: Alan Jones
https://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/national/australians-are-unaware-only-nine-per-cent-of-covid-deaths-caused-solely-by-virus-jones/video/702c4e623f9d50b5f32f70efe01db38a
had problems with above video, but this is what Jones reads from. can’t post url. Jones mentions the 9% figure for US, but notes CDC now claims 6%:
Dept of Health Australia: COVID-19 Australia: Epidemiology Report 22
Fortnightly reporting period ending 2 August 2020
COVID-19 National Incident Room Surveillance Team
p 15: Comorbidities
Comorbidities were common in those COVID-19 cases admitted to Australian sentinel hospitals (general ward or ICU), with 78% recording at least one of the specified comorbidities; only 9% recorded no comorbidity. The proportion of hospitalised cases with no known comorbidity recorded in U.S hospital surveillance system COVID-NET was also reportedly 9%.10 By contrast, in the UK, 22.5% of 20,133 hospitalised COVID-19 cases had no recorded comorbidities.6,9 This UK study reports similar prevalence estimates for key comorbidities amongst hospitalised COVID-19 patients as found in Australian data. In sentinel Australian sites, chronic cardiac disease occurred in 29% of hospitalised cases (30.9% in the UK), diabetes in 32% (20.7% UK) and chronic respiratory disease (including asthma) in 31% of hospitalised cases (32% UK study).
Just smart enough to be stupid.
If he had done his homework he wouldn’t have taken a mRNA vaccine. Yeah it specifically is designed to mess with your DNA. These are new, not just to the Kung flu, but in all deseases. We wont know of long term side effects of rewriting the bodies genetic code for years.
Let’s hope parents have enough sense not to give this to children especially when kids reaction to the disease is generally less than the vaccine, but with the same outcome, immunity.
He was "complaining" because he believed he'd had the China virus in the past and was hoping to donate plasma to help others who were sick.
Moderna is being taken to the woodshed for insider trading. No idea if it’s true/false, but the optics are terrible.
Yep, and that's exactly why I won't take it, despite being at high risk for catching the China Virus. I keep thinking of the movie "I am Legend" any time I think of some "vaccine" that re-writes part of our bodies genetic code.
FYI a friend of mine and his wife made an appointment at a local walk in med care for testing, they filled out paper
work but the LONG wait to be tested interfered with them getting to work on time so they left. A few days later they were contacted and told they tested positive and needed to quarantine, sent out the message to thier jobs and to contacts and harassed by contact tracers for weeks. THIS IS WHATS GOING ON and this is not the only incident Ive heard of
You obviously no nothing about biology. That is a laughably ignorant statement.
I would call you a Karen but I am not sure they wouldnt be an insult to all the Karens our tjere due to the depths of your ignorance and stupidity.
Go read a basic 7th grade biology book and get back to us on how this alters mRNA (hint. You dont know what mRNA is)
The stupidity is blinding. Care to tell me how the mRNA messes with DNA as its designed to do per your post? (Hint; it cant. Learn some basic biology and stop being often wrong and never in doubt)
This is a runner up for stupid post on this thread award. Yes
Ok. Dont take the vaccination. But you look like an idiot proffering false information that goes against central dogma of the entire discipline of biology.
Is ignorance fun? Just asking for your expert perspective as you are a lemming apparently not understanding basic biology but making a decision on talking points that are scientifically inaccurate
Riddle me this. How does mRNA affect DNA. Hint: it doesnt.
I think his motives are noble. Like it or not, there will be a vaccine and it will be widely administered. Hopefully the trial protocols will monitor for DNA changes. Nobless Oblige.
As to his disappointment for the negative results, I too had a brief illness around the same time. My assumption is that it came second hand from a family member's theme park visit. The D-Hammer slammed it down in short order but my doc won't approve me for any testing. Aside from the possibility of donating plasma, I'd like to know just what the heck it was for my own peace of mind. I assume the same for him.
Antibodies with this disease has a 3-6 week window and then T cell immunity sets in. This is what drives the false narrative that you can get reinfected (you cant). We cant check for T cell immunity to the best of my knowledge
A FReeper also volunteered and reported similar mild side effects.
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