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According to the NY times, the adverse reaction was transverse myelitis

> The individual also said that a volunteer in the U.K. trial had been found to have transverse myelitis, an inflammatory syndrome that affects the spinal cord and is often sparked by viral infections.

More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/08/world/covid-19-coronaviru...

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Transverse myelitis, usually causes by viral infections, can cause complete paralysis below the level of the lesion. Just like a transection of the spinal cord. Quite serious, I would guess determining the etiology in this case is going to be critical, but very hard to do.

Can also be autoimmune, perhaps triggered by vaccine. Or, in this case, could be triggered by the adenoviral vector used in the vaccine.

So if this was triggered by the vaccine (rather than the adenoviral vector), would it mean that this person might have also had TM if they had caught Covid19?

That's what you have studies for! Glad they caught it before it got into the wild.

Also, it's really great that there are multiple vaccines. Just imagine what happens when everyone gets a single vaccine that turns out to very often cause an adverse reaction...

And this is why trials must be allowed to run their course, not use vaccines as political propaganda, like what the Russian gangster and the orange clown are doing for their own political gains.

All drugs have adverse side effects. The idea is the "therapeutic index" being the ratio of the good to the bad. In this case, balancing the risk of the vaccine against the reality of all the deaths that covid is causing.

Waiting for a zero risk vaccine is not the optimal decision.

But waiting for a reasonably safe and risk-free vaccine is, which is the point of the trials.

it is also true that this does not mean that this vaccine will not be the reasonably safe and risk-free one

The situation in Sweden suggests that any serious risk model cannot accept a wide scale vaccine solution within a near time window.

Not everyone. Just the ones who thought it was a good idea to get injected with a rushed vaccine.

I read some comments online that said the control group is being given a meningococcal vaccine.

Transverse myelitis is apparently a rare complication with that vaccine.

It's possible (although not confirmed), the adverse reaction may have been from the control group.

"... the participant was injected with the company’s Covid-19 vaccine and not a placebo, Soriot said on the conference call..."

https://www.statnews.com/2020/09/09/astrazeneca-covid19-vacc...

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