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Last Updated: October 3, 2020 15:08
Corona vaccine
The fate of the vaccines that are made to eliminate the emerging virus depends on the decision of a “secret group”, which has the responsibility to approve the use of the vaccine in humans, and knows all the details of the production of the vaccine that they do not reach the general public or the media.
According to a report published by the US network “CNN”, members of the group known as the Data and Safety Monitoring Board are the only ones who know precise details about vaccine trials, such as the identities of the people who administered the vaccine, those who received their placebo vaccine, the pharmaceutical companies that produced the vaccine. And other details that even the US Food and Drug Administration does not know.
In a word, vaccine trials could be stopped, as happened before with the AstraZenka experiment in early September, after one of the study participants showed neurological symptoms.
The group consists of 10-15 members from all disciplines, including vaccine development, statistics, and ethics.
The work of a group member is neither public nor glamorous work. The National Institutes of Health pays them just $ 200 per meeting, no press conferences, no television interviews, no fame or glory.
Members of this group carefully examine the data. A word from them stops the chances of the vaccine reaching the market, if they find any side effects of the vaccine among those who received it.
The work of the group members is to monitor the data that comes from clinical trials, and it is required that the group members do not have or their family members have a professional relationship with vaccine producing companies.
The identities of the members of this group are not made public, for fear that they will be exposed to external pressures that affect their decisions.
Moderna, in addition to Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson, is conducting the third phase of clinical trials on experimental vaccines for the virus, during which tens of thousands of volunteers are injected with the vaccine and a similar number with a placebo vaccine, with in order to verify the effectiveness and safety of the vaccine.
There is a fourth vaccine in the United States that reached this third stage, but clinical trials were temporarily suspended, it is a vaccine developed by the company “AstraZeneca” in cooperation with the University of Oxford, according to Al-Hurra.
