- Monkeys in Oxford trials caught the virus. You'd think that would be disaappointing... Archived Message
Posted by walter
on May 18, 2020, 9:48 pm, in reply to "Johnathan Cook on scramble for vaccine"
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Doubts over Oxford vaccine as it fails to stop coronavirus in animal trials, https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12332933 This seems to be the real story as preventing the coronavirus us what the vaccine will be tasked to do. The BBC finds a good news vaccine story to bury the bad news in: Coronavirus vaccine: First evidence jab can train immune system Refers to modest interim result in eight people in a US study. Scroll down to... " Oxford vaccine A vaccine pioneered by the University of Oxford is also being tested in people, but there are no results from those trials yet. However, concerns have been raised about the results of experiments in monkeys. Tests showed vaccinated animals had less severe symptoms and did not get pneumonia. However, they were not completely protected from the virus and signs of it were detected at the same level in the monkeys noses as in unvaccinated animals. " https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-52677203 Great! But I thought the point was that they weren't supposed to get the virus. Eight monkeys not getting pneumonia is hardly the consolation prize. The Guardian also seemed use the US story as a positive lead for the Oxford setback: First human trial results raise hopes for coronavirus vaccine https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/18/first-human-trial-results-raise-hopes-for-coronavirus-vaccine "Oxford University has published results of safety trials in macaque monkeys. While the vaccine prevented the monkeys from developing pneumonia, it did not block the virus from infecting the animals." In other words, they-caught-the-virus. Pneumonia? First I've seen these new goalposts. Having reported yesterday that "UK plans £38m centre to start production of coronavirus vaccine" It reports today, in the light of " the findings also appear to put the US research ahead of the UK’s", that the UK has done a deal secure 30m doses of the Oxford vaccine. In other words, might be regretting yesterday's good news story. |