Antonio Metastasio, are you one of the volunteers for the human testing of the Oxford vaccine for Covid-19?
“Yes, I live and work in Cambridge and I volunteered when I heard they were looking for volunteers. I am a doctor, a psychiatrist, I have lived here for fifteen years ».
And did you hear that the trial has now been suspended?
“Actually I read this news in the newspapers, no one warned me directly.”
Was his experimentation already over?
“No, because I was given the first dose of vaccine in mid-June, and a few weeks ago they called me to schedule a vaccine booster for the end of September.”
Do you mean that they changed the trial protocol a few weeks ago?
“So it would seem, since they didn’t tell me about the recall in June, they told me later. I hope they confirm it. Stopping the vaccine would be a big blow. ”
It seems that one of the volunteers had a serious vaccine reaction, which caused concern …
“They do well to be cautious and careful, but you have to see what really happened.”
What effect did the dose of vaccine that they inoculated in June have had on you?
‘Nothing at all. Zero. Even less than the flu shot I get every year. ”
Does the flu vaccine usually react to you?
“No, not really, but when they inoculate me, I get that pain in my shoulder from the sting. That’s for the AstraZeneca and Irbm vaccine I didn’t even hear that ».
How did you know they were looking for volunteers to test the Covid-19 vaccine?
“I am in charge of a psychiatry department of the hospital in Cambridge and I frequent the university environment. I learned here that they were looking for volunteers and on Facebook there was all the necessary information ».
Did they ask for special requirements for trial volunteers?
“No, they were looking for adults who were healthy and obviously hadn’t caught the virus. I passed all the tests with great tranquility ».
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