NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – AztraZeneca announced Wednesday that a setback in the race to produce a COVID-19 vaccine: a volunteer who won the experimental vaccine developed a serious complication.
As CBS2’s Dr. Max Gómez reported Wednesday, an alleged adverse occasion is not entirely unexpected in giant clinical trials of vaccines involving tens of thousands of people, there will be volunteers who will get sick for reasons unrelated to the vaccine. it can simply be due to the vaccine and that’s why the trial was discontinued.
The AstraZeneca-Oxford trial, one of the most advanced, recruiting volunteers from England, India, Brazil, South Africa and the United States Volunteers in the United Kingdom developed severe inflammation of the spinal cord, according to Dr. Anthony Fauci, which led to protection. test exam and break.
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“Alert other sites to see if they see anything or something similar. And then he continues with caution as he moves forward, making sure to keep an eye out for this kind of adverse event,” Fauci said.
Neither Dr. Fauci nor AstraZeneca would wait for the duration of the trial break while the independent knowledge security oversight committee evaluates the case, but this will obviously slow down the process.
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Meanwhile, at a Senate hearing, two of the government’s most sensible doctors tried to assure the country that no vaccine will be approved until it is fully tested for its protection and effectiveness.
“Science and science alone will be the way this resolution is made. Otherwise, I probably wouldn’t have anywhere,” said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the NIH.
As for when a vaccine might be available, government doctors said that while it will be Election Day, the maximum timetable is probably not until at least the end of the year.
An AstraZeneca spokesperson issued a message about the patient in poor health, saying in part: “. . . there is no definitive diagnosis and there will be no further tests. “
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