Daniel Matamala recounts his experience as a vaccine volunteer from Oxford and AstraZeneca: “This is a gigantic effort”



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The journalist Daniel Matamala related through his social networks his experience as a volunteer for the Oxford vaccine and AstraZeneca, a process that the University of Chile is carrying out in our country.

“Since last Friday, I have been part of the phase 3 clinical trial of the University of Chile, with the Oxford vaccine and AstraZeneca,” Matamala started by telling a thread on Twitter.

“My thanks to the team led by Dr. Sergio Vargas, doctors, nurses, paramedics, midwives, who kindly guide and advise me in this process: taking a blood sample, physical examination, PCR and the first dose of the vaccine (the second it’s four weeks later), “he continued.

The face of CNN Chile and Chilevisión detailed that “of every three volunteers, two receive the vaccine and one, a placebo. In the following hours I had some fever (38 °) one of the probable effects that are reported in advance. within hours of taking paracetamol. “

Daniel Matamala stressed that “this is a gigantic effort of thousands of people around the world, collaborating to obtain safe and efficient vaccines that save lives and put an end to the pandemic.”

“Together with Blanca Lewin we decided to collaborate with a grain of sand, putting our shoulder (or arm, rather) with 30 thousand volunteers from all over the world,” he remarked.



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