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Oxford Covid Vaccine: Volunteer had spinal cord problem, says NIH Chief

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Covid-19 vaccine trial had been halted due to a “spinal cord problem."The vaccine front-runner and its partner, the University of Oxford, stopped giving experimental shots after a person participating in one of their studies got sick, triggering a review of safety data.Appearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions, Collins said that the severe adverse event in question was transverse myelitis, a neurological disorder that causes inflammation of the spinal cord.

If AstraZeneca’s review finds the adverse event is related to the vaccine, all the doses already manufactured will be thrown away, Collins said.“This ought to be reassuring to everybody listening when we say we are going to focus first on safety and.

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