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UK looking for volunteers to take part in world-first Covid vaccine booster trial
The Sun ^

Posted on 05/19/2021 5:29:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway

MATT Hancock has announced the world's first clinical trial on booster jabs - and volunteers are needed.

Seven existing vaccines are to be tested in the Cov-Boost trial to see which jabs could be used in any forthcoming autumn vaccination programme.

Some 2,886 people aged 30 and older are being recruited at 18 NHS sites from London to Glasgow, with the first booster jabs administered in early June.

The trial will cost £19.3million, backed by taxpayers' money.

The trial will test the Pfizer jab alongside those from AstraZeneca, Moderna, Novavax, Janssen from Johnson & Johnson, Valneva and CureVac.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: covid19; pharmaceuticals; vaccine

1 posted on 05/19/2021 5:29:49 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

The volunteers better make sure somebody knows where they are, or they could end up in shallow, unmarked graves.


2 posted on 05/19/2021 5:31:42 PM PDT by dsc (Paul? Paul Revere? Are you out there?)
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To: nickcarraway

No Control Group?


3 posted on 05/19/2021 5:32:15 PM PDT by left that other site (If you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. (Isaiah 7:9))
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I’ll have to read more. What is this booster? Is it to target some of the mutations? Or are they suggesting that the vaccine efficacy rates drop over time?

We get annual flu shots, which are sort of hit or miss each year because they are mass produced long before we know what type of flu to target. But this here vaccine... I have suspected it is a weak brew for a long time. Maybe good for a few weeks or months. Then ‘immunity’ fades. Just my hunch with only little bits of data to support it. But that’s because few studies checking up on it.


4 posted on 05/19/2021 5:39:37 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: monkeyshine

Well, you see, what real science warned about the unprecedented policy of trying to vaxxx in the midst of a fairly benign pandemic ( survival rate of over 95% for most healthy people) ...is that the clever virus would seek to “ escape” the immunization effort and mutate into new more infectious variants

Then when people were infected, well we just “ vaccinate’” them again

And again.

Notwithstanding the tens of thousands already suffering from the so-called vaccine itself, already

Many real scientists are now saying this will not lead to a happy ending

By next fall if vaxxx people start getting sicker, younger....we’ll know whose science was right


5 posted on 05/19/2021 5:58:11 PM PDT by silverleaf (In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act)
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To: nickcarraway

Not testing China’s because everyone already knows they need “booster” shots.
UAE is already administering 3rd shots.


6 posted on 05/19/2021 6:00:25 PM PDT by mrsmith (US MEDIA: " Every 'White' cop is a criminal! And all the 'non-white' criminals saints!")
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To: nickcarraway

Not the first.

Moderna Announces First Participants Dosed in Study Evaluating COVID-19 Booster Vaccine Candidates
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-first-participants-dosed-study-evaluating

Moderna Announces Positive Initial Booster Data Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-positive-initial-booster-data-against-sars-cov


7 posted on 05/19/2021 6:27:09 PM PDT by familyop (Third world slaves are misled to generalize distrust against friendly learners.)
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Moderna Announces New Supply Agreement with Switzerland for 7 Million Booster Vaccine Doses in 2022 and Option for Additional 7 Million Doses
https://investors.modernatx.com/news-releases/news-release-details/moderna-announces-new-supply-agreement-switzerland-7-million


8 posted on 05/19/2021 6:28:15 PM PDT by familyop (Third world slaves are misled to generalize distrust against friendly learners.)
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To: silverleaf
.is that the clever virus would seek to “ escape” the immunization effort and mutate into new more infectious variants

Variants come from every COVID patient, vaccinated or not. There are fewer variants from vaccinated patients that can survive because transmission is more difficult from vaccinated people.

Notwithstanding the tens of thousands already suffering from the so-called vaccine itself,

Got mine today, no virtue whatsoever, just my choice based on who I am required to interact with. No suffering.

By next fall if vaxxx people start getting sicker, younger....we’ll know whose science was right

Yes, the jury is out. Lots of claims are being made on both the vax side and what passes for anti-vax here. Both will end up wrong. I don't personally believe the vaccines are safe like a flu vaccine is safe (mRNA vs attenuated virus) but we will find out how safe and effective they really are in six months to a year.

9 posted on 05/19/2021 6:31:51 PM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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To: monkeyshine

Immunity fades with the regular flu shot as well.

That’s why they don’t recommend getting the flu shot too early in the fall. They want it to still be effective come spring in case the flu is still going around.


10 posted on 05/19/2021 7:18:30 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith.... )
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To: nickcarraway

The vaccine industry is pure fraud and evil

Avoid like the PLAGUE! The REAL ONE !


11 posted on 05/19/2021 8:26:54 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Arizona !!!! Now the TRUMP TRAIN is getting back on TRACK ! TRUTH! FREEDOM ! LIBERTY! )
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