CureVac's COVID-19 Shot Failed Trial

[JonDouglas]

Business Insider: CureVac's COVID-19 shot just failed in a large trial, a major setback for the Gates-backed biotech.

A COVID-19 vaccine candidate developed by the German biotech CureVac failed in a critical late-stage study, the company said Wednesday.​

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It's the first failure of a major vaccine candidate in a final-stage trial. CureVac said an interim analysis showed the shot was 47% effective, falling short of the study's goals and the minimum bar for what US regulators find approvable.​

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The development is a setback to the world's immunization efforts, as European officials had previously reached deals to acquire up to 405 million doses of the shot. ​

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Despite the disappointing result, CureVac CEO Franz-Werner Haas said the company plans to go "full speed for the final readout." The trial is still ongoing and the final vaccine efficacy figure may vary as more COVID-19 cases are tallied. ​

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More at source.​

 

[JonDouglas]

Related (vaccine failure) is NBC: More Than 500 Breakthrough Infections Reported in Mass. in Under 3 Weeks

More than 500 fully vaccinated people tested positive for coronavirus in Massachusetts in under three weeks, according to recent state data.​

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As of June 5, there were 3,641 cases of COVID-19 among 3,500,011 fully vaccinated people in Massachusetts, according to the Department of Public Health. That's 558 more cases than the reported 3,083 fully vaccinated people who had tested positive as of May 17, first reported by MassLive.​

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The so-called breakthrough cases — cases where fully vaccinated individuals test positive for coronavirus — have so far been rare, but are possible. The numbers account for approximately one in 1,000 vaccinated people in Massachusetts.​

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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a total of 10,262 breakthrough infections were reported throughout the country as of April 30, at which time 101 million people had been vaccinated.​

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More cases have likely gone unreported, federal officials have said, because they only have data from 46 states and territories. Additionally, most vaccinated people don't show symptoms that are serious enough to get tested.​

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The CDC stopped counting breakthrough infections last month. Instead, federal health officials are only tracking vaccinated patients who end up in the hospital or those who die from COVID-19.​

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More at source.​

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As I recall, the real experts (and not the government and media BS artists) always said the vaccine won't stop you from getting covid but should greatly "defang" the virus if you do get it. You can be nearly certain that way more vaccinated people are getting covid than is being reported, given how the CDC counts things.