First published at 21:12 UTC on January 28th, 2021.
Only people under 65 should take AstraZeneca vaccine, Germany warns 28 January 2021
The vaccine doesn't have the coronavirus in it — instead, it's a type of chimpanzee-originated common cold that normally infects chimpanzees that can ins…
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Only people under 65 should take AstraZeneca vaccine, Germany warns 28 January 2021
The vaccine doesn't have the coronavirus in it — instead, it's a type of chimpanzee-originated common cold that normally infects chimpanzees that can instruct human cells to make a coronavirus protein.
The solution is meant to help overcome the pre-existing immunity to a human adenovirus but it will also be the first time in the history of vaccines that an alien non-human chimpanzee virus will be used as a vector to produce a vaccine.
There are no long-term studies to demonstrate this technology’s safety.
There are also concerns related to known facts that many human diseases are caused by animal viruses.
The version of virus used in the AstraZeneca vaccine is found in Chimpanzees
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