Professor Roger Seheult, MD discusses the Pfizer COVID-19 mRNA vaccine: How it works and what we know about the safety and efficacy at this time.
No mRNA vaccine has ever been approved by the FDA, but Pfizer and BioNTech hope to receive emergency approval based on preliminary data from their ongoing vaccine trial.
This two-dose vaccine regimen has limitations including the need for -70 C refrigeration and many questions remain:
Will the vaccine prevent transmission and asymptomatic spread?
How long will immunity last?
Will “90% effective” hold up to peer-review and additional data when it is gathered?
(This video was recorded on November 12, 2020).
Dr. Seheult is the co-founder and lead instructor at https://www.medcram.com
LINKS / REFERENCES:
Johns Hopkins Tracker | https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html
Worldometer | https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
COVID-19 vaccine tracker (RAPS) | https://www.raps.org/news-and-articles/news-articles/2020/3/covid-19-vaccine-tracker
Safety and Immunogenicity of Two RNA-Based Covid-19 Vaccine Candidates (NEJM) | https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2027906
A prefusion SARS-CoV-2 spike RNA vaccine is highly immunogenic and prevents lung infection in non-human primates (bioRxiv) | https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.08.280818v1.full.pdf
Pfizer and BioNTech Announce Vaccine Candidate Against COVID-19 Achieved Success in First Interim Analysis from Phase 3 Study (BioNTech) | https://investors.biontech.de/news-releases/news-release-details/pfizer-and-biontech-announce-vaccine-candidate-against-covid-19
Why mRNA represents a disruptive new drug class {BioNTech) | https://biontech.de/how-we-translate/mrna-therapeutics
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I wouldn’t vaccinate against coronavirus until a vaccine has been used or tested for at least 5/6 years, if it’s needed at that point at all.
So much uncertainty at this time, is leaving us all in fear. With the pandemic and the elections, up in the air the world is becoming a scary place. I lost my job due to the pandemic, me and my children are facing homelessness at the end of this month. I’m searching for work to no avail.
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Thank you.
Let’s not give credit to Trump project Warp Speed. His administration had Nothing to do with it…Bunch of corrupt democrats, media and big tech.
So the biontec programs our cells to put out virus spike proteins, so that our body gets totally into attack mode on producing antibodies?? This sounds highly risky.
Excellent!💖
Unfortunately the cold chain requirement will be the downfall of this vaccine, we have issues with people keeping vaccines under 5 degrees.. yet alone -79!
I’d like to know your thoughts on the “Cluster 5” mutation and if this Denmark strain concerns you? I’m very worried as there’s reports on decrease antibody resistance? We’ve had a few staff at our hospital who tested positive in April testing positive again during this current wave.
The word “case” needs to be clearly defined as to what the ‘condition’ is, whether just a false positive PCR test “case” … vs a hospital admittance “case” … it’s being used to terrify people and by politicians to mandate ‘lockdowns’ that are socially/economically damaging …
I’m part of the trial…pretty sure I got the real deal, had a slight fever for a day fatigue for 3 days and arm soreness. Worth it 100%.
Is it just me or does injecting modified RNA into your body seem sketch
100% sketch, but good for the stock market apparently..
Don’t take the vaccine
It’s not just you, but let’s hope they know what they’re doing.
I wrote the same. We are programming all of our cells to produce virus Proteine which will cause then a massive antibody reaction. And what about the newly programmed cells? I say this is risky.
The “testing” for pfizer vaccine was injecting the vaccine into 44,000 people, then releasing them back into society to live as normal. It didn’t take in 4,000, and 96 got Covid. Sorry, but I don’t understand how this method is “scientific”.
@Katie I find that a very haphazard way of verifying a vaccine. It’s only lately that covud spread to middle states, so if a majority of the volunteers lived there, the results are definitely screwed. This scattered, life as usual approach, can in no way be considered a controlled study.
That’s generally how studies work. You go back to life but check in and report what they ask of you.
Tell you what, let all of those who want go ahead and take it get it. We will check back on you in 6 months. I want long term studies on this , not 6 to 8 months.
Same. Especially with so much money involved.
Doesn’t feel right at all
Sending love and strength to our medical practitioners
Thank you very much for keeping us updated we all appreciate you thank you 👨⚕️🏥
Well, its been a few months, looks like a lock down is returning. Guess I’ll be watching ur channel again, unfortunately! Sorry, this is a helpful channel but I hate I have to learn this at all. Nothing against u.
The reason sucks, but it is interesting though!
I won’t take any vacancies unless it is 100% proof it really works some vaccines can kill you you☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️☠️ I’m diabetic, and have sleep apnea, and COPD ect…….🤒🤧😷
Welcome back doc.
Hey Doc shouldn’t u b getting the conid vaccine first?
Again, thanks for another video. Please stay safe out there.
Thank you for your encouragement