Ohio State Wexner Medical Center is for students, teachers, lifeguards, and other teams of others at risk of exposure for a clinical trial of a COVID-19 vaccine.
The medical center will be one of many sites to vaccinate a total of another 30,000 people in a clinical trial, according to a press release.Approximately 500 adults will participate in the trial at the medical center.
“We are very pleased that the state of Ohio is taking this COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial to central Ohio,” said Dr. Rama Mallampalli, director of the Department of Internal Medicine, in the statement.”Our hospitals and researchers are qualified to conduct these trials for the purpose of saving lives in our network and beyond.”
The vaccine evolved jointly through the University of Oxford and the biopharmaceutical company AstraZeneca.
An early clinical trial in the UK has noticed the effects that appear on the experimental vaccine and triggers a strong immune response, generating antibodies and T cells, which studies and combats inflamed cells with COVID-19, according to the release.
Study participants will get the experimental vaccine or placebo, have blood samples taken and keep up with medical experts for two years, he said.
Mallampalli stated that the effects of this trial and other clinical trials conducted through the COVID-19 prevention network, created through the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, are for the marketing of a COVID-19 vaccine.
“It’s time to expand a vaccine and/or drugs that can prevent sarS-CoV-2 transmission and the serious physical effects and deaths caused by COVID-19,” dr.Susan Koletar, director of the Division of Infectious Diseases.at the Medical Center and lead researcher of the study, he said in the press release.
“This requires unprecedented collaboration. Our world-class, well-established infectious disease is working hard with pneumologists, epidemiologists, other medical experts and the network to locate tactics to treat well and save this widespread disease,” Koletar said.it is just one of many critical CLINICAL trials of COVID-19 being conducted in the state of Ohio, allowing us to treat patients at all stages of the disease.”
Those who wish to volunteer for the clinical trial of the vaccine can do so online here.
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