But some experts are skeptical of the science.
For starters, in the rush to get started, the FDA allowed #Moderna's RNA vaccine -- called mRNA-1273 -- to essentially gloss over the animal-testing that typically precede clinical trials in humans. Given the nature of this emergency, they are happening in parallel.
Siddiqi said this is cause for alarm.
"I would not let that [vaccine] to be injected in my body," he said. "I would demand: Where is the toxicity data from the lab?"
Professor Nikolai Petrovsky at Flinders University in Australia, who is collaborating with Oracle to use computer models and AI technology to develop a Covid-19 vaccine, has concerns about the mRNA trials, insisting the US government has taken an unproven vaccine and "put (it) straight into humans."
"It's a double game," he said. "An unproven platform for a new disease with no animal testing."
https://www.kq2.com/content/national/570109642.html
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Inhaled, not injected
Patients in the hospital setting were randomly assigned to treatment with inhaled interferon beta (SNG001, #Synairgen) or placebo.
“The results confirm our belief that #interferon beta, a widely known drug that, by injection, has been approved for use in a number of other indications, has huge potential as an inhaled drug to be able to restore the lung’s immune response, enhancing protection, accelerating recovery and countering the impact of SARS-CoV-2 virus,” Tom Wilkinson, MA Cantab, MBBS, PhD, FRCP, professor of respiratory medicine at the University of Southampton and trial chief investigator, stated in the release.
https://www.healio.com/news/pulmonology/20200721/inhaled-interferon-beta-shows-promise-for-severe-covid19
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