Dr. Marc Siegel, a medical contributor to Fox News, told “Tucker Carlson Tonight” on Wednesday that new reports indicate that a coronavirus vaccine developed by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford is showing a “robust immune response” in participants. of the essay.
“Brian, tonight, people from all sides of the political aisle are cheering. This week we already had good news from Moderna that they are showing a robust immune response against the COVID-19 virus. [with their vaccine]Siegel said to guest host Brian Kilmeade.
“Now, Oxford University in England, which the World Health Organization calls the leader in terms of vaccines, may be showing it because, Brian, they are already having advanced-stage clinical trials around the world in India, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, in Brazil, where the critical points are. Late tests that already begin in July. “
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Siegel went on to say that British medical journal The Lancet is slated to publish data from early-stage human trials of the Oxford vaccine next week, and reports indicate that those trials have also shown a robust response.
“This is a new type of vaccine, Brian, that uses something from a chimpanzee, a chimpanzee virus, an adenovirus to seed us with the protein that causes this robust immune response.”
Almost two dozen possible vaccines are in various stages of development and testing worldwide.
“This is the world leader and we are ready here in the United States to increase,” Siegel said. “So tonight we take off the hat from the Trump administration for Operation Warp Speed, which will take this vaccine and combine it with manufacturing to make hundreds of millions of doses, if it works, available by the end of the year.”
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“Congratulations to the scientists around the world who are preparing this vaccine. And finally, we congratulate our association, the special relationship the United States has with the United Kingdom. We won two world wars together. The United States and the United Kingdom, and now we we are uniting to beat this virus that threatens the world, “Siegel added.
Although the vaccine is being manufactured by a British university and a British-Swedish company, Siegel made it clear that the United States is “very involved in this.”
“We will increase it and we will be able to produce the doses we need,” he said. “Manufacturing will keep pace with science. This has never been done in human history.”
