Vaccine makers are gambling with human life
Vaccine makers are gambling with human life
At your own risk
We've been moving the last couple of weeks. Away from the cities downtown homeless camps that stretch for miles. Away from the zombies that wander our alleys and look through our trash.
Did you know that states actually pay homeless people to get on a bus and then go to another city? New York sends its homeless to North Carolina. Arizona ships them out to Colorado.
So I have been silent to the news world. Fulfilling my home taker duties.
This week’s article will be short.
Last week executives from 9 different drug companies "agreed" to a pledge. Ensuring the safety of a potential COVID vaccine.
Then yesterday: AstraZeneca stopped recruiting for their vaccine after a woman in the UK had a serious neurological adverse effect.
Feels like they made the pledge last week because they knew that this news would be released this week.
They deemed the event an "unrelated neurological illness." But the details from the patient have not been released.
Transverse myelitis is a serious condition involving inflammation of the spinal cord. It can cause muscle weakness, paralysis, pain, and bladder problems.
In rare instances, vaccines have triggered cases of transverse myelitis. It can also be caused by viral infections.
From some comments on this article.
"Two ENT doctors in Minneapolis have had transverse myelitis. It is associated with Flu vaccines. It is a know side effect/complication. In one case, the doctor fully recovered. In the second case, it was a career-ender."
AstraZeneca was in the FINAL phase 3 states. The recruitment for the trial has stopped. They have stopped recruiting for the trial in Brazil, South Africa, and the UK.
Here is the headline I can show people when I express my concern. The rush to push a vaccine to market is DANGEROUS. The rush to give it to everyone.
AstraZeneca was a front runner. Everyone was optimistic about this viral vector since it is a good template for a vaccine.
We need to wait for the results of a proper trial to assess safety before global use.
If you have been following with me each week, you know that I'm not an Anti-vaxxer. I am cautious.
This vaccine is given to healthy people in trials. Which is why EVERY adverse effect needs to be taken seriously.
We have not been giving this vaccine to the people who are immunocompromised or in the "at-risk" group.
They aren't people who have had COVID-19 yet.
Many people won't show adverse effects from the vaccine for at least a month or two.
Clinical trials usually take so long because they do not skip over investigations such as one like this.
We have never made a nucleic (DNA or RNA) vaccine ever. Not for animals or for humans. But we want to fast track any vaccine that can get past phase 3.
States are telling their local agencies to be prepared to give out vaccines as soon as the end of October. IN TWO MONTHS. Phase three trials take at least a year.
But now we are going to take the data from phase three trials from only a couple of months?
How can we be confident in something when we are compressing and compromising timelines for POLITICS?
