Clinical trial for nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine begins this week at Cincinnati Children's Hospital

[StarryNite]

Clinical trial for nasal spray COVID-19 vaccine begins this week at Cincinnati Children's Hospital
By: Taylor NimmoPosted at 7:09 PM, Oct 01, 2021 and last updated 7:40 PM, Oct 04, 2021

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Dr. Paul Spearman, director of the division of infectious diseases with Cincinnati Children's Hospital, says the nasal spray vaccine has the potential to curb the pandemic.

"We're excited about the potential of the vaccine to really protect at the very site where the virus usually comes into your body."

Clinical trials are about to begin here. Dr. Spearman says he hopes to have their first enrollment this week.

"We need to find individuals who have not yet had a COVID vaccine and also have not had COVID itself in order to best test this new vaccine,” Dr. Spearman said. “So that's a bit of a tricky population to find now as you can imagine.

[link:https://www.wcpo.com/news/coronavirus/covid-vaccine/clinical-trial-for-nasal-spray-covid-19-vaccine-begins-this-week-at-cincinnati-childrens-hospital|

[abqtommy]

1. Thanks for this exciting news. It's the first I've heard about it. nt

[StarryNite]

2. Isn't it strange that we aren't hearing more about these trials?

[abqtommy]

3. Not really. We all have different interests and sources so it's nice when

somebody (you in this instance) shares with the rest of us.

[StarryNite]

4. Thank you but I was referring to the news media.

COVID is very much in the news. The fact that way more people should be getting vaccinated it seems something like this trial would be of interest to many people. Lots of people, including myself, would much rather have a nasal spray than a needle. Although I did get the J & J I would be much happier to have a booster spray.

[abqtommy]

5. Right, the "news media" is lacking. Every day I read at least 3 different sources

of international news and I haven't seen any news about this yet. At all. Where did
you come across it? I guess we can consider ourselves the "news underground".

[StarryNite]

6. I just Google searched for it.

I had read something about it months ago and decided to see if anything had come of it. I was happy to see it is being tested now.

[Hav]

7. I personally know someone who participated in a study for such a nasal spray

Unfortunately, it didn't show signs to offer sufficient protection and participants were eventually given that info in order to make a decision about getting vaccinated instead.
Building up and maybe even boosting antibodies and the immune system by simply using a spray would have been fantastic. I would have given it a try even it would have been just the equivalent of the hand sanitizer to reduce the viral load in your nose and respiratory system.

[LisaL]

8. As far as I can tell, this is a first trial of a vaccine in the form of nasal spray in the US.

NT

[hamsterjill]

10. No, it's not.

There was a local news story in May.

https://www.kens5.com/amp/article/tech/science/sa-trial-covid-nasal-spray-vaccine/273-ba7cdb30-6914-4a2f-bde4-29b36d2c8181

[abqtommy]

9. That's great! Thanks! nt