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applegrove

(118,622 posts)
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 04:50 PM Apr 2020

Oxford Leaps Ahead on Coronavirus Vaccine

Oxford Leaps Ahead on Coronavirus Vaccine

April 27, 2020 at 3:02 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 99 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/04/27/oxford-leaps-ahead-on-coronavirus-vaccine/

"SNIP.......

New York Times: “Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university’s Jenner Institute had a running start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that similar inoculations — including one last year against an earlier coronavirus — were harmless to humans.”

“That has enabled them to leap ahead and schedule tests of their new coronavirus vaccine involving more than 6,000 people by the end of next month, hoping to show not only that it is safe, but also that it works.”

“The Oxford scientists now say that with an emergency approval from regulators, the first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to be effective.”



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Oxford Leaps Ahead on Coronavirus Vaccine (Original Post) applegrove Apr 2020 OP
Outstanding. nt coti Apr 2020 #1
Wow - that is great news! rurallib Apr 2020 #2
link to original NYT source article....the oxford mentioned is UK university msongs Apr 2020 #3
Yes i always include the link to the original article in the Political Wire applegrove Apr 2020 #4
Staying hopeful! Guilded Lilly Apr 2020 #5
Exxxcelent! Disaffected Apr 2020 #6
There are already vaccines in human trials DrToast Apr 2020 #7
Link DrToast Apr 2020 #8
"The volunteers will be followed for 13 months to ensure they have no side effects or other reaction Dem2 Apr 2020 #18
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove Apr 2020 #9
Hope feels good The Blue Flower Apr 2020 #10
Have they ran it past our pop up epidemiologists here yet? HarlanPepper Apr 2020 #11
Encouraging! triron Apr 2020 #12
This is amazing and welcome news! Orrex Apr 2020 #13
knr triron Apr 2020 #14
That's the most hopeful news I've heard all day Generic Brad Apr 2020 #15
Most welcome. applegrove Apr 2020 #16
This is such wonderful news. K&R for the post and the discussion. crickets Apr 2020 #17

DrToast

(6,414 posts)
7. There are already vaccines in human trials
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 05:53 PM
Apr 2020

Good news, but I don’t think they jumped ahead of everyone.

DrToast

(6,414 posts)
8. Link
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 05:56 PM
Apr 2020
The Seattle volunteers who got shots in the first trial of a possible coronavirus vaccine are now getting the second shot — an indicator the early trial is progressing well.

While the doctors at Kaiser Permanente's Vaccine Treatment and Evaluation Unit in Seattle don’t know the results of the first round of tests, the fact that it has continued and that the second round of injections are now being given is good news, said Lisa Jackson, who is leading the study.

“The trial hasn’t been stopped. We know from the study protocol that if adverse events had happened, the protocol would have required that,” she said. “Therefore we presume those things haven’t happened.”


https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/04/22/second-round-shots-first-coronavirus-vaccine-test-start/3008506001/

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
18. "The volunteers will be followed for 13 months to ensure they have no side effects or other reaction
Tue Apr 28, 2020, 09:19 AM
Apr 2020

I think the O/P suggests this phase is skipped due to trials of a similar vaccine last year.

Response to DrToast (Reply #7)

 

HarlanPepper

(2,042 posts)
11. Have they ran it past our pop up epidemiologists here yet?
Mon Apr 27, 2020, 06:03 PM
Apr 2020

That should be a critical part of their process at Oxford.

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