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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

JOHNSON & JOHNSON VACCINE: ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST?

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

News, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2020

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

A pause in J&J’s (Janssen) “Phase 3” Covid vaccine trial has left the world in the dark, as hardly any detail has been released to the public about what the participant’s illness was that caused the trial pause. For a mega-company that has been in the spotlight for years losing billion dollar lawsuits for killing consumers with their toxic products, this lack of transparency is not surprising.

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0:00.0

Johnson and Johnson is their vaccine candidate.

0:03.9

Trial is on pause.

0:05.6

It seems like we're reporting some of this stuff every week.

0:07.9

Paws due to unexplained illness, they say.

0:10.5

Now this was in the statement in the article,

0:13.4

Johnson and Johnson said that under its guidelines,

0:15.6

the participants illness is being reviewed and evaluated

0:18.2

by the study's independent data safety monitoring board.

0:21.5

This is a phase three trial.

0:23.0

This is Johnson and Johnson subsidiary Janssen's

0:25.5

COVID-19 vaccine candidate.

0:28.2

There's really not much information.

0:29.8

I was expecting by airtime we would have had something.

0:32.1

This happened one day.

0:33.4

I was thinking by today, we would at least know

0:35.4

what the illness is, but still no word on the illness.

0:39.0

Yeah, no word on the illness.

0:40.7

And no word if the participant was even

0:43.0

in the vaccine trial arm or the placebo trial arm.

0:46.2

So we don't even have that information at this point.

0:48.4

Now remember, when we reported on AstraZeneca's pause

0:52.0

for the transverse myelitis, that was four days

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