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Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Sunky200: 10:09pm On Apr 23, 2020
The first human trial in Europe of a coronavirus vaccine has begun in Oxford.

Two volunteers were injected, the first of more than 800 people recruited for the study.

Half will receive the Covid-19 vaccine, and half a control vaccine which protects against meningitis but not coronavirus.

The design of the trial means volunteers will not know which vaccine they are getting, though doctors will.

Elisa Granato, one of the two who received the jab, told the BBC: "I'm a scientist, so I wanted to try to support the scientific process wherever I can."

The vaccine was developed in under three months by a team at Oxford University. Sarah Gilbert, professor of vaccinology at the Jenner Institute, led the pre-clinical research.

"Personally I have a high degree of confidence in this vaccine," she said.

"Of course, we have to test it and get data from humans. We have to demonstrate it actually works and stops people getting infected with coronavirus before using the vaccine in the wider population."

Prof Gilbert previously said she was "80% confident" the vaccine would work, but now prefers not to put a figure on it, saying simply she is "very optimistic" about its chances.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygOULxGgU0w

So how does the vaccine work?

The vaccine is made from a weakened version of a common cold virus (known as an adenovirus) from chimpanzees that has been modified so it cannot grow in humans.

The Oxford team has already developed a vaccine against Mers, another type of coronavirus, using the same approach - and that had promising results in clinical trials.

How will they know if it works?

The only way the team will know if the Covid-19 vaccine works is by comparing the number of people who get infected with coronavirus in the months ahead from the two arms of the trial.

That could be a problem if cases fall rapidly in the UK, because there may not be enough data.

Prof Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, who is leading the trial, said: "We're chasing the end of this current epidemic wave. If we don't catch that, we won't be able to tell whether the vaccine works in the next few months. But we do expect that there will be more cases in the future because this virus hasn't gone away."

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/health-52394485

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by domDva(m): 10:17pm On Apr 23, 2020
This is the difference between knowledge based economy run in the West and Religion based economy run in Africa.

The funny thing is that even the miracle working pastors are also isolating and hoping for vaccine to be discovered by prayerless Westerners.

Wake up Africa wake up.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Jashub: 10:19pm On Apr 23, 2020
[s]
domDva:
This is the difference between knowledge based economy run in the West and Religion based economy run in Africa.

The funny thing is that even the miracle working pastors are also isolating and hoping for vaccine to be discovered by a prayerless Westerners.

Wake up Africa wake up.
[/s] Rubbish and baseless

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by chizidgreat(m): 10:21pm On Apr 23, 2020
Okay o
FTC dedicated to Lagos people

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by wallex1983(m): 10:22pm On Apr 23, 2020
Now behold the lamb...

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by sammyj: 10:22pm On Apr 23, 2020
If UK get this vaccine sorted out first . Then the Americans and the Chinese will have a lot to loose!! The world power might to UK if care is not taken as everyone will look towards them! shocked

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by dokyOloye: 10:23pm On Apr 23, 2020
God bless the white man.

Blacks are only good at sex.Nancy Pelosi 2020 grin

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Dtribeless: 10:26pm On Apr 23, 2020
sammyj:
If UK get this vaccine sorted out first . Then the Americans and the Chinese will have a lot to loose!! The world power might to UK if care is not taken as everyone will look towards them! shocked

Incorrect assertion! It's bombs that makes world powers these days, not cures for disease. UK medicine is already among the topmost so not much will change.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by egoriboy: 10:26pm On Apr 23, 2020
Right move, test it on yourself. African no longer guinea pigs.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by domDva(m): 10:28pm On Apr 23, 2020
Spotted ....one of those caged by the corn artists and manipulative pastorprepreneurs.

Jashub:
[s][/s] Rubbish and baseless

I

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by potent5(m): 10:28pm On Apr 23, 2020
May it be successful.

Iseh.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by NaijaRoyalty(m): 10:33pm On Apr 23, 2020
Observing

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by seunmsg(m): 10:43pm On Apr 23, 2020
I hope it works. The only permanent solution to this CoronaVirus is a vaccine. Without it, there will very likely be another outbreak after this one is contained.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Charleys: 10:44pm On Apr 23, 2020
seunmsg:
I hope it works. The only permanent solution to this CoronaVirus is a vaccine. Without it, there will very likely be another outbreak after this one is contained.

What about a cure, why are people preaching about vaccines?

So you'll rather prefer to vaccinate 7 billion people rather than cure less than a million with coronavirus. Don't you think something is wrong.


Modified: thanks to those who corrected me.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by sammyj: 10:45pm On Apr 23, 2020
So the curr for thys biological weapons isn't good enough to make you world power !!! cool
Dtribeless:


Incorrect assertion! It's bombs that makes world powers these days, not cures for disease. UK medicine is already among the topmost so not much will change.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Dtribeless: 10:49pm On Apr 23, 2020
sammyj:
So the curr for thys biological weapons isn't good enough to make you world power !!! cool

My brother, every world power has serious biological weapons way more dangerous than COVID.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by abobote: 10:53pm On Apr 23, 2020
sammyj:
If UK get this vaccine sorted out first . Then the Americans and the Chinese will have a lot to loose!! The world power might to UK if care is not taken as everyone will look towards them! shocked
What has Vaccine got to do with world power ?

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Nobody: 11:02pm On Apr 23, 2020
domDva:
This is the difference between knowledge based economy run in the West and Religion based economy run in Africa.

The funny thing is that even the miracle working pastors are also isolating and hoping for vaccine to be discovered by prayerless Westerners.

Wake up Africa wake up.
...... Gbammmn !

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Daddysidhan: 11:08pm On Apr 23, 2020
domDva:
Spotted ....one of those caged by the corn artists and manipulate pastorprepreneurs.



I
what about your imams and sheik with their black powder abi Allah is not Akbar again.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by joshjc(m): 11:14pm On Apr 23, 2020
Nice one from the UK scientists,I've be wondering where are the professor's and doctors in our higher institution,there are supposed to be making research concerning this pademic.
In my opinion we should try our traditional herbal medicine

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by honeyB2018: 11:34pm On Apr 23, 2020
domDva:
This is the difference between knowledge based economy run in the West and Religion based economy run in Africa.

The funny thing is that even the miracle working pastors are also isolating and hoping for vaccine to be discovered by prayerless Westerners.

Wake up Africa wake up.

You got wrong. Science and technology, as much as they have tried, are yet to find all solution to man's need, including your so called knowledge based economy.
But God still remains the ultimate power and source of all wisdom and knowledge, which he in bestows to men including the pastors.


Domdva

I don't know why people like you, love to take a swipe at the pastors, when they have not been given opportunity to demonstrates their God given power over Covid 19.
Pastors were asked to close down their churches, those who dare to open them are, harassed, arrested, taken to courts and are fined. So why blame and castigate them?
By the way, are there not medical conditions, that are beyond science, technology medication, that God by these lampooned pastors have healed in the past?

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by domDva(m): 11:39pm On Apr 23, 2020
Bigoted imams are grouped together in the same isolation center as those pastors ....


Daddysidhan:
what about your imams and sheik with their black powder abi Allah is not Akbar again.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by LordviccoDaGuru(m): 11:41pm On Apr 23, 2020
Amen I pray it works

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by domDva(m): 11:41pm On Apr 23, 2020
Examples please ? Forget the TV dramas and give me real documented evidence .....they may be one or 2, not saying science has found answers to all human mysteries but most of our pastors are manipulative fraud.

honeyB2018:



Domdva

I don't know why people like you, love to take a swipe at the pastors, when they have not been given opportunity to demonstrates their God given power over Covid 19.
Pastors were asked to close down their churches, those who dare to open them are, harassed, arrested, taken to courts and are fined. So why blame and castigate them?
By the way, are there not medical conditions, that are beyond science, technology medication, that God by these lampooned pastors have healed in the past?

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Nobody: 11:52pm On Apr 23, 2020
This one that they are still talking about 1 million doses by September. Seems this pandemic isn't going away anytime soon. So are we going to continue this lockdown indefinitely?

Oh gawd.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by kokoA(m): 11:59pm On Apr 23, 2020
African countries are just sitting down, folding their arms in the name of lockdown while praying and hoping that the white man gets a cure or vaccine for covid19, yet we have professors, PhD holders, etc all over the place in thousands of universities.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by honeyB2018: 12:33am On Apr 24, 2020
domDva:
Examples please ? Forget the TV dramas and give me real documented evidence .....they may be one or 2, not saying science has found answers to all human mysteries but most of our pastors are manipulative fraud.



Science and technology is yet to find cure for HIV, Epilepsy, Cancer etc, but God through the pastors, with prayers said in Jesus name have brought about healing to these
Science and technology have not explained to us, how a woman who has gone past her age of child bearing, will still take in and bear children.
Science and technology has failed to explain to us, how a woman, without a womb will still be mother of children. These and many more has God through the pastors have done.

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by baralatie(m): 1:09am On Apr 24, 2020
sammyj:
If UK get this vaccine sorted out first . Then the Americans and the Chinese will have a lot to loose!! The world power might to UK if care is not taken as everyone will look towards them! shocked
you are minding Johnson and Johnson.they said theirs will be next year 2021.I was like ehn!
China I don't understand but since they instructed their scientists and medics not to publish research on covid 19 without approval.the motivation in China got lost

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by globalresource: 2:49am On Apr 24, 2020
domDva:
This is the difference between knowledge based economy run in the West and Religion based economy run in Africa.

The funny thing is that even the miracle working pastors are also isolating and hoping for vaccine to be discovered by prayerless Westerners.

Wake up Africa wake up.

Everything you talk about religion. There are people without religion in Africa. What have they achieved? We have history of great scientist who are Christian and believe in God

This is not about Pastor. Every religion believes in Miracles. The so call Developed countries have different religion too

Christianity Brought Education to Africa. Do not forget that

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by jlinkd78(m): 3:04am On Apr 24, 2020
I pray the vaccine works

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Re: Coronavirus: First Patients Injected In UK Vaccine Trial by Kobojunkie: 3:24am On Apr 24, 2020
honeyB2018:
You got wrong. Science and technology, as much as they have tried, are yet to find all solution to man's need, including your so called knowledge basd economy.
But God still remains the ultimate power and source of all wisdom and knowledge, which he in bestows to men including the pastors.

Your pastors have all run to save their own lives..... or are you not aware that churches have been closed all across the world? Apparently, their god has given then permission to social distance themselves from their flock in order to save their own lives. grin grin grin IT does not bother you that after thousands of years of demanding worshippers show up in so-called "houses of god", several times each week, your pastors suddenly decided that their god should take a back seat to COVID-19? Dem don meet the one wey pass their god be wetin dem they try tell you. grin grin grin grin grin grin

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