It was the first death recorded in many trials of the Covid-19 vaccine globally, according to AFP. Brazil’s National Health Surveillance Agency confirmed that it was notified of the case on October 19.
Meanwhile, the Brazilian newspaper Balloon and the Bloomberg news agency citing some well-known sources that the volunteer was in the control group and received a placebo injection, not the Covid-19 vaccine.
The D’Or Institute for Research and Teaching (IDOR), which supports the Covid-19 vaccine trial in Brazil, said that half of the volunteers received a placebo. According to IDOR, 8,000 volunteers have received the Covid-19 vaccine in Brazil.
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Follow Balloon, the death volunteer is a young doctor (28 years old), who since May has been treating patients with Covid-19 in the emergency rooms and the intensive care unit of two hospitals in the city of Rio de Janeiro. 3. The young man graduated from medical school last year and was in good health before becoming infected with Covid-19, according to his family and friends at Globo. CNN reported that the young doctor died of complications from Covid-19.
A source familiar with the matter told Reuters the trial would be stopped if the death of the volunteer had previously received the Covid-19 vaccine. Meanwhile, organizations involved in vaccine research confirmed that an independent inspection concluded that there were no safety concerns for the aforementioned vaccine, developed by multinational pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca. , and testing will continue, reported AFP.
Last month, Oxford and AstraZeneca halted the vaccine trial when a volunteer in the UK contracted an unexplained illness. The trial was resumed after British officials and independent tests concluded that the strange disease was not caused by a side effect of the Covid-19 vaccine.