COVID-19 Vaccine Animal Studies
Apparently some people have a really strange idea that there were no animal studies performed for COVID-19 vaccines.
I… I just. The video captures my feelings well.
Moderna’s non-human primate study: The monkeys were protected against the development of disease on challenge with SARS-CoV-2. They were then sacrificed to have their tissues examined.
Pfizer/BioNTech’s mouse and non-human primate study: The monkeys were protected against the development of disease on challenge with SARS-CoV-2. They were then sacrificed to have their tissues examined. Mice demonstrated good immunogenicity with the vaccine.
Johnson and Johnson/Janssen non-human primate study: A single dose of the vaccine is immunogenic. The vaccine achieves complete or near complete protection of the primates from lung infection on challenge of the primates.
Oxford/Astra Zeneca’s non-human primate study: A single dose of the vaccine was immunogenic in mice and macaques. Macaques are protected from pneumonia on challenge with virus after a single dose. The animals were euthanized to examine their tissues.
Novavax’s nonhuman primate study: Macaques fail to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 with intranasal and intratracheal challenge. The animals were euthanized to examine their tissues.
There are many others if you look hard enough; I can come back and update this page with additional ones that I find or people send me.
A request though: before claiming something doesn’t exist, please make an honest attempt to at least look for it. It took me ~30 seconds to find the animal study I was looking for through a search engine.
