Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday (3/16/20)

[Lakhota]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.

The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The official who disclosed plans for the first participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been publicly announced.

Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests.

More: Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

A good start. Best wishes to the volunteers.

 

[Lakhota]

Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

So what are the differences between coronavirus and the flu? For starters, there is no vaccine for COVID-19 and it could take many months or years to get one to market, and, unlike the influenza viruses for which there are several vaccines, humans have not built up an immunity over multiple generations. What’s worse, doctors fear the virus will mutate.

Of course, there are similarities between influenza and COVID-19. Both viruses are untreatable with antibiotics, and they have almost identical symptoms — fever, coughing, night sweats, aching bones, tiredness and, in more severe cases of both viruses, nausea and even diarrhea. They can be spread by touching your face, coughing and sneezing.

But doctors say their differences are just as varied. “It’s a little simple to think the novel coronavirus is just like flu,” Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told MarketWatch.

“We don’t want another flu,” he said. “This is additive, not in place of. Yes, the flu kills thousands of people every year, but we’re going to have more deaths.”

Much More: Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

Food for thought. Good article.

 

[Lakhota]

It's possible to get the flu and the coronavirus at the same time

Dr. Christie Alexander, an associate professor at the Florida State University College of Medicine and president of the Florida Academy of Family Physicians, said in a press release last month she recommends "continuing to get the flu shot to not only avoid getting the flu, but to avoid complications from the flu, such as hospitalizations, influenza-associated illnesses like pneumonia or even death."

It's avoiding those complications that may make getting the flu shot especially important during outbreaks of the novel coronavirus, which is more likely to cause serious symptoms or lead to death in people with certain health conditions, including respiratory issues.

Woc-Colburn said that while it's unclear if having the flu will make you more susceptible to the coronavirus, anyone who's had one virus in their household only to contract another while they're on the mend can understand why that might be the case. "When you're recovering from a disease, you don't want to be hit again with another disease," she said.

Plus, it's possible to get both at once, which will only exacerbate symptoms, as one case study out of China illustrates.

Why you should still get the flu shot, even though it won't directly protect you from the coronavirus

More food for thought.

 

[Kilroy2]

But 18 months just for trial phase and Trump says that he wants the vaccination relatively soon so lucky people do recover and people have to go on with there lives

since this is a global problem there will be lots of people working on this issue and if they share their data then we will have another shot that we may have to take in order to live a long and prosper

 

[Jackson]

I just read the police have come out and told people to stop calling 911 because they ran out of toilet paper. Ah, what a world we live in.,,

 

[White 6]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.

The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The official who disclosed plans for the first participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been publicly announced.

Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests.

More: Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

A good start.

I certainly hope all 45 live and allow them to establish tolerance levels and side effects. They are brave individuals, do a great service for our country.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.

The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The official who disclosed plans for the first participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been publicly announced.

Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests.

More: Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

A good start. Best wishes to the volunteers.

There's going to be no 2020 vaccine.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The first participant in a clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday, according to a government official.

The National Institutes of Health is funding the trial, which is taking place at the Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute in Seattle. The official who disclosed plans for the first participant spoke on condition of anonymity because the move has not been publicly announced.

Public health officials say it will take a year to 18 months to fully validate any potential vaccine.

Testing will begin with 45 young, healthy volunteers with different doses of shots co-developed by NIH and Moderna Inc. There’s no chance participants could get infected from the shots, because they don’t contain the virus itself. The goal is purely to check that the vaccines show no worrisome side effects, setting the stage for larger tests.

More: Government official: Coronavirus vaccine trial starts Monday

A good start.

I certainly hope all 45 live and allow them to establish tolerance levels and side effects. They are brave individuals, do a great service for our country.

And some lucky private investors. The constantly funding decrease targeted NIH.

 

[DOTR]

Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

So what are the differences between coronavirus and the flu? For starters, there is no vaccine for COVID-19 and it could take many months or years to get one to market, and, unlike the influenza viruses for which there are several vaccines, humans have not built up an immunity over multiple generations. What’s worse, doctors fear the virus will mutate.

Of course, there are similarities between influenza and COVID-19. Both viruses are untreatable with antibiotics, and they have almost identical symptoms — fever, coughing, night sweats, aching bones, tiredness and, in more severe cases of both viruses, nausea and even diarrhea. They can be spread by touching your face, coughing and sneezing.

But doctors say their differences are just as varied. “It’s a little simple to think the novel coronavirus is just like flu,” Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told MarketWatch.

“We don’t want another flu,” he said. “This is additive, not in place of. Yes, the flu kills thousands of people every year, but we’re going to have more deaths.”

Much More: Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

Food for thought. Good article.

Yep. Overreacting.

 

[Bo Didleysquat]

Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

So what are the differences between coronavirus and the flu? For starters, there is no vaccine for COVID-19 and it could take many months or years to get one to market, and, unlike the influenza viruses for which there are several vaccines, humans have not built up an immunity over multiple generations. What’s worse, doctors fear the virus will mutate.

Of course, there are similarities between influenza and COVID-19. Both viruses are untreatable with antibiotics, and they have almost identical symptoms — fever, coughing, night sweats, aching bones, tiredness and, in more severe cases of both viruses, nausea and even diarrhea. They can be spread by touching your face, coughing and sneezing.

But doctors say their differences are just as varied. “It’s a little simple to think the novel coronavirus is just like flu,” Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar at the John Hopkins Center for Health Security and a spokesman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America, told MarketWatch.

“We don’t want another flu,” he said. “This is additive, not in place of. Yes, the flu kills thousands of people every year, but we’re going to have more deaths.”

Much More: Influenza kills more people than coronavirus so everyone is overreacting, right? Wrong — and here’s why

Food for thought. Good article.

Yep. Overreacting.

We can react later, this would be proacting, that's what you're queasy about. You're plenty reactive.

 

[BULLDOG]

The Corona Virus trial starts Monday, but Trump and the Senate are busy trying to block all witnesses and evidence just out of habit.

 

[gulfman]

If we can wipe out colon cancer and lick yeast infection we can handle this virus

 

[Truth1253]

Maybe I’m being ignorant but why are so many people grabbing above everything else.


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[Norman]

I had to re-read it to make sure...

Lakhota managed to make a thread not filled with TDS? Did they complete the Trump derangement vaccine as well?

 

[Snouter]

Wow, apparently the Flu Shot manufactures have a lot of left over Flu Shots that didn't work anyway. By the way, how can Flu Shot manufacturers PREDICT a possible flu strain and they are usually wrong anyhow, but they can't make one with the full microscopic signature of a variation of the flu which is the Chinese Flu.

Worst side effect of this Chinese Flu is immune suppression thus inviting pneumonia. Worst side effect of flu shots, paralysis from the waist down, often temporary.

 

[Harpy Eagle]

Wow, apparently the Flu Shot manufactures have a lot of left over Flu Shots that didn't work anyway. By the way, how can Flu Shot manufacturers PREDICT a possible flu strain and they are usually wrong anyhow, but they can't make one with the full microscopic signature of a variation of the flu which is the Chinese Flu.

Worst side effect of this Chinese Flu is immune suppression thus inviting pneumonia. Worst side effect of flu shots, paralysis from the waist down, often temporary.

The worst side effect of COVID-19 is death.

 

[Norman]

Wow, apparently the Flu Shot manufactures have a lot of left over Flu Shots that didn't work anyway. By the way, how can Flu Shot manufacturers PREDICT a possible flu strain and they are usually wrong anyhow, but they can't make one with the full microscopic signature of a variation of the flu which is the Chinese Flu.

Worst side effect of this Chinese Flu is immune suppression thus inviting pneumonia. Worst side effect of flu shots, paralysis from the waist down, often temporary.

The worst side effect of COVID-19 is death.

That's not a side effect. It's the main effect.

Is Gator prepared to fight the death virus?

 

[Harpy Eagle]

That's not a side effect. It's the main effect.

Is Gator prepared to fight the death virus?

With a mortality rate of less than 3%, clearly not the the main effect.

 

[Norman]

That's not a side effect. It's the main effect.

Is Gator prepared to fight the death virus?

With a mortality rate of less than 3%, clearly not the the main effect.

It's not a medication, it's a virus. That's the main effect you should be concerned about. The death rate is between 7% and 50% in Italy.

Did your daughter not work at ER? Interesting to hear how it pans out...

 

[Harpy Eagle]

It's not a medication, it's a virus. That's the main effect you should be concerned about. The death rate is between 7% and 50% in Italy.

Did your daughter not work at ER? Interesting to hear how it pans out...

She does but her city has not been hit yet.

My wife works in a PCU and they have retrofitted a 6 room area to be a negative pressure area and she will be treating the patients directly when they are brought to her hospital. It is a regional VA Medical facility so they will get them from a wide area.