First COVID-19 vaccine tested in the US yields hopeful results

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“No matter how you slice this, this is good news,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press.

The experimental vaccine, developed by Fauci’s colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will start its most important step around July 27: A 30,000-person study to prove if the shots really are strong enough to protect against the coronavirus.

But Tuesday, researchers reported anxiously awaited findings from the first 45 volunteers who rolled up their sleeves back in March. Sure enough, the vaccine provided a hoped-for immune boost.

Those early volunteers developed what are called neutralizing antibodies in their bloodstream -- molecules key to blocking infection -- at levels comparable to those found in people who survived COVID-19, the research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.

There’s no guarantee but the government hopes to have results around the end of the year -- record-setting speed for developing a vaccine.

The vaccine requires two doses, a month apart.

There were no serious side effects. But more than half the study participants reported flu-like reactions to the shots that aren’t uncommon with other vaccines -- fatigue, headache, chills, fever and pain at the injection site. For three participants given the highest dose, those reactions were more severe; that dose isn’t being pursued.

 

[dynamite 66,607]

Hopefully it all goes smoothly and we can finally put a stop to this fad bitch sooner rather than later.

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Chromatica Ball here we go!!!!

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thanks for the great news morphine prince 

made my day

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Yaaaassssssssss  shows promising safety and immune response, but more research is needed

[alsemanche 97,799]

This sounds promising, I hope it pulls through

And I hope the US does not overprice it to hell and makes it available for other countries

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2 minutes ago, alsemanche said:

This sounds promising, I hope it pulls through

And I hope the US does not overprice it to hell and makes it available for other countries

Right now there are 5-6 vaccines from GERMANY UK CHINA .and they will compare to them. One vaccine already approved and used for military in China 

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The great thing about it is that we're definitelly getting somewhere, and there are also other vaccines out there that shows promising results (and maybe some others too that we might not know currently). I'm pretty confident that by next year we're going to have a good vaccine.

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1 hour ago, dynamite said:

Hopefully it all goes smoothly and we can finally put a stop to this fad bitch sooner rather than later.

I second this!

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So an immune system booster shot?

[PartySick 172,507]

The sociopathic political American in me lowkey hopes it doesn't come until after the election so Trump can't claim credit for it.

Barring that horrible thought, this is great news

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I wonder if this specifically targets Corona, or it just super boosts your immune system. Cuz if so, why aren't we all taking stuff like this in general? 

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17 minutes ago, PartySick said:

The sociopathic political American in me lowkey hopes it doesn't come until after the election so Trump can't claim credit for it.

Barring that horrible thought, this is great news

Well, the 30k people phase of this trial will end by the end of this year so he won’t be able to take credit for anything before the election. 

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4 hours ago, dynamite said:

Hopefully it all goes smoothly and we can finally put a stop to this fad bitch sooner rather than later.

My closeted ass talking about gaga in 2008