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Vaccine trials

SCOUT5SCOUT5 Member Posts: 16,181 ✭✭✭✭
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Seems trials are starting for a Covid-19 vaccines.   I received this in an e-mail from the Kentucky Board of Nursing.   I'm licensed in In and KY.   The KBN sent it out but it is written by the University of Louisville Division of Infectious Disease.  

"Nurses and nursing personnel are recognized as workers being at the highest risk for COVID-19 exposure and infection.  National response efforts include bringing vaccines to the public as a primary prevention approach.  

 

COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials are beginning across the US and those trials will soon be available in Kentucky.  We want to make sure nurses and nursing personnel are aware of these trials and have the ability to participate in one or more of those trials."

Then it gave contact information etc.

So vaccine efforts are moving forward.

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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    A friend of mines older brother signed up for the Moderna trial recently. He's hoping he gets the vaccine and not the saline control injection.

    I figure he should have 'some' sign of which one he got,....who knows. I hope it goes well.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,649 ✭✭✭✭
    Good point dreher.

    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭
    Lets test it on those folks that won't wear a mask in public....
    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
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  • Toolman286Toolman286 Member Posts: 3,256 ✭✭✭✭
    To avoid getting it poofed and me banned I'll just describe a pic of the side affects of the Russian vaccine. You know that famous pic of Vladimir Putin fishing without a shirt?? Well he now has boobs.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    I used to work in the pharma industry............conducting clinical trials............mostly HIV drugs. They will go Phase I-through Phase IV...........the data has to be collected, submitted to FDA and analyzed. They will expedite the process but it will  through reviews for side effects and efficacy. Studies done on gen pop volunteers.
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  • mac10mac10 Member Posts: 2,758 ✭✭✭✭
    steriol saline water
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  • Horse Plains DrifterHorse Plains Drifter Forums Admins, Member, Moderator Posts: 40,253 ***** Forums Admin
    bustedknee said:
    Lets test it on those folks that won't wear a mask in public....
    Be better to test it on the people who are skeered of catching the kung, no? I mean after all they are the ones so worried about it.
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  • bustedkneebustedknee Member Posts: 2,001 ✭✭✭✭

    I figure if we use on the no-maskers we may save their lives.

    I can't believe they misspelled "Pork and Beans!"
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    Give it to Democrats?
    Neal
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  • nmyersnmyers Member Posts: 16,892 ✭✭✭✭
    Novavax just announced that they are beginning phase 2B trials in South Africa.  I guess that we all must share the risk as well as the benefit.
    Neal
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020
    mrmike08075 said:
    I have an experimental power port implanted in my chest - one of the first 500 used on humans in north America - I am part of the fda trials and investigational studies...

    Came with an alert bracelet to spur physician inquiries.

    I have participated in a half dozen investigational studies and am involved in one current drug trial...

    I figured I would have been dead by now - certainly did not expect to make it to the 4 year mark (this November) so I figured WTH someone down the line should benefit from my brutal ordeal and still expected death...

    If I was allowed to have a live vaccine I might sign up for these trials too - but my platinum based chemo and targeted radiation treated immune system supposedly rules out live vaccine or at least carries a high risk of death...

    I think of pediatric oncology cases and roll the dice - since I am supposed to be dead anyway already half a dozen times...

    I think my possible sacrifice is worth any potential benefit a child with cancer might receive.

    Hell I allowed myself to be transported to the NIH in Bethesda and tortured in an obscene manner just in case somebody somewhere - perhaps one of your spouse's or children or grandchildren might live.

    If you think that makes me a fool or a mark or a shill or a tool please explain your position...

    I miss Nord.

    Mike

    Mike I used to conduct clinical trials working for a big CRO out of NC. I have worked on Phase I-IV trials. Mostly HIV drugs. 14 years in the clinical research industry. I know what the study subjects go through and the benefit that this research gives to society. I  don't think you are a fool at all. Experimental treatments have to be tested. Hopefully you, the patient, get a benefit from it and the knowledge gained benefits people on down the line.
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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    Mike.............I am praying for you. And there is hope. I think I mentioned this in a previous post........but I have had testicular cancer and went through platinum based chemo as well..........................don't give up brother. 

    Keep on being you. Your posts are always insightful and thought provoking.........your encyclopedia of firearms knowledge is bigger than anyone else here. 
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