{"id":4323,"date":"2020-12-09T07:47:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T20:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:57:34","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T00:57:34","slug":"fda-says-2-participants-in-pfizer-covid-vaccine-trial-have-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unshackledminds.com\/fda-says-2-participants-in-pfizer-covid-vaccine-trial-have-died\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA Says 2 Participants In Pfizer COVID Vaccine Trial Have Died"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

ZeroHedge<\/a> – Tyler Durden<\/a> Tue, 12\/08\/2020 – 13:30<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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With the FDA expected to grant emergency-use approval for the Pfizer-BionTech COVID vaccine Thursday after releasing a preliminary assessment of the trial data that the panel will use to assess the drug earlier today, the agency has admitted Tuesday that two participants in the Phase 3 trials have died. One of them was immunocompromised, according to the Jerusalem Post, citing data released earlier.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FDA is expected to release two separate assessments of the trial data before a panel of experts meets to review the data and either approve Pfizer’s request for emergency approval, or deny it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This also comes after the FDA warned of a “severe averse reaction” frequently seen in patients after taking the second dose.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the US, there has been at least one other trial participant who reportedly died not long after receiving the second dose. The participant in that case was a priest in Philadelphia<\/a> who participated in the Moderna trial. In the UK, two patients were seriously sickened during the trial of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine (though Oxford later said the illnesses had nothing to do with the trial). While In Brazil, authorities briefly halted a trial of Sinovac’s experimental COVID vaccine after a participant died.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Israel has purchased 8 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine (enough to vaccinate 4 million people), and while some health officials have suggested that vaccinations could begin as soon as the doses arrive, Health Ministry director-general Chezy Levy told the JPost that beginning vaccination in any place ahead of FDA approval was forbidden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be sure, it’s unclear whether the participants who died succumbed to vaccine-related complications, or whether they even received a vaccine at all (they could have received a placebo). In the UK, which innoculated the first patients under the ’emergency use’ approval on Tuesday, a 90-year-old grandmother and 81-year-old man named “William Shakespeare” were among the first patients to receive the vaccine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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