Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
The monkey adenovirus is thought to be safe, it carries genetic material of the COVID-19 unusual coronavirus to induce immunity.
it was supposed to be given to 30,000 people in a trial.
Now it’s all on hold while they investigate why one person has transverse myelitis, a rare complication known to be associated with adenoviruses.
But we have no idea whether or not the adenovirus vaccine caused it.
Meanwhile, this one individual tragic illness, highlights the bravery of volunteers and the need for rigorous standards of patient, deliberate peer review and monitoring.
Again this underlines why politics can’t be driving the CDC and local authorities to relax rules just to allow an unproven vaccine in the USA, merely to celebrate “some” science victory over the current pandemic.
We have to be cautious and given over 70 candidate vaccines, we can come up with something safe.
One can’t rush it, wash one’s hands in pure alcohol and light celebratory candles! Someone will be set on fire.
I gave up a major job with the US Army to make a live adenovirus vaccine for Acute Respiratory Disease of Recruits. I feared a live adenovirus vaccine was too dangerous. Now we know much more and no doubt a safe Adenovirus based vaccine can be made.
However, all political input must be stopped. Ethical decision require a distinction between what we can do and what we should do.
Yes the President has the power to order pressure on the CDC. But we have the power to resist tampering with the safety of new science or else who will trust us with their children.
I commend Astra Zeneca for not only pausing their unique vaccine trial. Perhaps it will be safe to restart. But this is how ethical science experimentation is carried out in humans. Read more here.
Of course, in Russia and China, the State doe what it wants and there is little to no transparency.
I am proud that we are conducting research trials as we should with due caution and pauses to learn what we are doing.
Asher
it was supposed to be given to 30,000 people in a trial.
Now it’s all on hold while they investigate why one person has transverse myelitis, a rare complication known to be associated with adenoviruses.
But we have no idea whether or not the adenovirus vaccine caused it.
Meanwhile, this one individual tragic illness, highlights the bravery of volunteers and the need for rigorous standards of patient, deliberate peer review and monitoring.
Again this underlines why politics can’t be driving the CDC and local authorities to relax rules just to allow an unproven vaccine in the USA, merely to celebrate “some” science victory over the current pandemic.
We have to be cautious and given over 70 candidate vaccines, we can come up with something safe.
One can’t rush it, wash one’s hands in pure alcohol and light celebratory candles! Someone will be set on fire.
I gave up a major job with the US Army to make a live adenovirus vaccine for Acute Respiratory Disease of Recruits. I feared a live adenovirus vaccine was too dangerous. Now we know much more and no doubt a safe Adenovirus based vaccine can be made.
However, all political input must be stopped. Ethical decision require a distinction between what we can do and what we should do.
Yes the President has the power to order pressure on the CDC. But we have the power to resist tampering with the safety of new science or else who will trust us with their children.
I commend Astra Zeneca for not only pausing their unique vaccine trial. Perhaps it will be safe to restart. But this is how ethical science experimentation is carried out in humans. Read more here.
Of course, in Russia and China, the State doe what it wants and there is little to no transparency.
I am proud that we are conducting research trials as we should with due caution and pauses to learn what we are doing.
Asher
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