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- Coronavirus vaccine trial participants have reported feeling a mix of side effects including tiredness, fever, and headaches, according to an interview with a handful of late-stage Phase 3 participants.
- Crucially, though, all of those participants who shared the symptoms they experienced in an interview with CNBC agreed on one point -- that they felt these symptoms (which mostly went away after a day) were an acceptable trade-off for the reward of a potentially successful coronavirus vaccine.
- A successful and safe coronavirus vaccine is expected to be cleared and ready for usage before the end of this year.
If anyone has been following the news to any degree over the last 24 hours, you don't need to be reminded that there is really only one story in the US right now. It is the coronavirus pandemic, and specifically how the virus that's rampaged across the country for months has now turned the White House and the orbit of President Trump into a petri dish of COVID-19 infection. As of the time of this writing, late Friday night, the toll of victims in the president's circle only continues to grow, with Trump advisor Kellyanne Conway and Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien announcing that they, like the president and first lady, have likewise tested positive for COVID-19. Trump, by the end of the day on Friday, was being treated at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he'd been admitted earlier in the day and, per NBC News, had been started on a course of remdesivir treatment.
Outside of the Trump orbit and politics in general, the lion's share of everyone's focus still remains on the virus. Along these lines, we also learned on Friday some salient new information connected to the coronavirus vaccines that all of us are so keenly anticipating -- specifically, what symptoms that coronavirus vaccine trial participants have begun to experience.
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These are coronavirus vaccine side effects that trial participants are experiencing originally appeared on BGR.com on Sat, 3 Oct 2020 at 10:12:50 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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