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douglas9

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Sun Oct 18, 2020, 04:32 PM Oct 2020

Coronavirus vaccine trials halted as more volunteers become ill, Lummi Nation withdraws from AstraZe

LUMMI NATION, Washington -- The Lummi Nation pulled out of the controversial AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine study this week, after a volunteer in the trial became ill with a neurological disorder.

Lawrence Solomon, Chairman of the Lummi Indian Business Council said, “We will continue to look for ways to protect our people from this virus. But after consultation with the Lummi Public Health Department, it was clear that the AstraZeneca vaccine trial was not a good fit.”

Meanwhile, Pfizer, the drug company carrying out experimental coronavirus vaccines on Navajos said the vaccine will not be ready before the election -- bringing to an end Trump's promise of a vaccine before the election.
"It was never going to happen. It was utterly unrealistic," said Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. "Vaccines follow a timeline of good science, they don’t follow a timeline of electoral politics," Politico reported.

The controversial vaccine experiments on Navajos sank into the political campaign. Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer publicly joined Trump's campaign. The Navajo government urged Navajos to volunteer for the vaccine experiments.

https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2020/10/lummi-nation-pulls-out-of-astrazeneca.html

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Coronavirus vaccine trials halted as more volunteers become ill, Lummi Nation withdraws from AstraZe (Original Post) douglas9 Oct 2020 OP
Pfizer CEO, before you let this kind of news out, Mr. Trump would appreciate 10 tons of heartburn NCjack Oct 2020 #1
IMO, the CDC needs to understand *why* native Americans... RainCaster Oct 2020 #2
It's Faux pas Oct 2020 #3

NCjack

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1. Pfizer CEO, before you let this kind of news out, Mr. Trump would appreciate 10 tons of heartburn
Sun Oct 18, 2020, 04:36 PM
Oct 2020

relief medicine delivered to the White House.

RainCaster

(10,835 posts)
2. IMO, the CDC needs to understand *why* native Americans...
Sun Oct 18, 2020, 04:38 PM
Oct 2020

... and other minority groups are so damaged by this virus.

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