Clinical trials:
- Phase I clinical trials simply test the safety of a drug or vaccine in a small number of healthy volunteers — usually brave and naïve college students.
- Phase II trials are responsible for testing its effectiveness in a larger number of subjects.
- A hyped-up and exuberant response to a Phase I trial as seen with Moderna press release is rare and nearly unheard of.
- Little information is gleaned from an investigational drug in Phase I that has many more hurdles to overcome before it successfully gets to market
- 77 percent of vaccines for infectious diseases make it through Phase I, but only 33 percent make it through the entire process overall.
Moderna’s RNA vaccine
- Upon examining Moderna’s non-peer reviewed press release, the actual data on the vaccine’s success is even more flimsy.
- When it comes to finding out whether the vaccine elicits an antibody response that could potentially fight the coronavirus, they only had data on eight patients out of the 45 patients who received the vaccine.
- The only data Moderna mentioned when it comes to determining whether the vaccine was clinically effective against the coronavirus were from mice.
- History also proves that success in animal models is often not replicated in human studies.
- Moderna’s messenger RNA vaccine is completely new and revolutionary. Messenger RNA vaccines have never before been brought to market for human patients
- It uses a sequence of genetic RNA material produced in a lab that, when injected into your body, must invade your cells and hijack your cells’ protein-making machinery called ribosomes to produce the viral components that subsequently train your immune system to fight the virus.
- Some messenger RNA vaccines are self-amplifying. That means they can force the cell to replicate more copies of itself.
- There are unique and unknown risks to messenger RNA vaccines, including the possibility that they generate strong type I interferon responses that could lead to inflammation and autoimmune conditions.
Oxford Vaccine Group’s vaccine:
- Oxford Vaccine Group has a competing vaccine that does not need to invade and hijack our cells’ own machinery.
- From a medical and clinical perspective, there is less risk of generating a type I interferon response and autoimmunity because there is no messenger RNA floating around our blood, invading our cells.