Volunteers needed for CV vaccine trials

[Robert Clark]

Just signed up
Thought I’d share

Sign up to be contacted for coronavirus vaccine studies

Use this service to sign up to be contacted about taking part in coronavirus vaccine studies

www.nhs.uk

 

[JockandRita]

Just signed up

Ditto.

Thanks Robert.

Cheers,

Jock.

 

[sueandjohn]

Don’t know if they want oldies and vulnerables but I’m trying to sign up

 

[ChrisSue]

Signed up too

 

[AndyPK]

Me too!

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[davieboy]

Been having texts from my local GP clinic for a while, if i have any symptoms to contact them maybe down to living close to Oxford where they are trying to develop a vaccine

 

[Ivory55]

Trouble is that they are usually somewhere like Cambridge and you have got to get all the way there, no parking etc . They never ever seem to come to you.

 

[David and Sally]

Signed. Thanks for the heads-up

 

[Robert Clark]

Trouble is that they are usually somewhere like Cambridge and you have got to get all the way there, no parking etc . They never ever seem to come to you.

Thanks for your input
Take a chance
What have you got to lose

 

[DavidG58]

They have been discussing this on the news, once the antidote has been taken the ‘patient’ then needs to catch CV19 to assess effectiveness

I am normally happy to help, but might leave it to the younger / leaner amongst you this time

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[CazPaul]

They have been discussing this on the news, once the antidote has been taken the ‘patient’ then needs to catch CV19 to assess effectiveness

I am normally happy to help, but might leave it to the younger / leaner amongst you this time

But that means you need to have some time off work though.

 

[Robert Clark]

But that means you need to have some time off work though.

He’s unemployed nowadays

 

[Coastal Cruiser.]

Is this the Russian trial you are all signing up for?

 

[Robert Clark]

Is this the Russian trial you are all signing up for?

No

 

[Glas Robin]

They have been discussing this on the news, once the antidote has been taken the ‘patient’ then needs to catch CV19 to assess effectiveness

I am normally happy to help, but might leave it to the younger / leaner amongst you this time

That’s not correct. No one is deliberately infected - that would be deeply unethical with a trial vaccine and a novel potentially serious virus. It’s also completely unnecessary from a scientific perspective.

I volunteered and was excluded from the Oxford vaccine trial, following a positive antibody test. It seems as an NHS worker I’d already been exposed but was unaware as asymptomatic.

Had I been accepted, the trial went like this:

2,000 ish volunteers. Half randomised to each side of the study.
One side were given another non-Covid vaccine.
One half were given the trial Covid vaccine.
12 months of regular blood tests and Follow up.

The tests identify who has developed an antibody response, how much and for how long. No need to infect anyone with the virus. The non-Covid vaccine is the control group, but also provides a reference point for those who develop an immune response through natural means not vaccine.

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[XxAnthxX]

I have an appointment in Newcastle on Tuesday to check for convalescence plasma donation....