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His name is Edward O'Neil , he is Australian and also one of the first people vaccinated against the coronavirus. Or better yet, he is the first person to experience the effects of an experimental vaccine developed by a team at the Jenner Institute at Oxford University in their own meats. When we talked to him, barely 24 hours had passed since the vaccine was given.

The details of the antidote, how safe it is, and what ability it has to generate a good immune response against the coronavirus will be understood from the response of your body and that of 500 other volunteers . O'Neill is a researcher specialized in oncology and works at this university. In fact, many of the volunteers are part of the academic world.

"They wanted to test the vaccine on people who were physically close to the university, so they sent an email to those of us who work here. They regularly draw blood, we are monitored and our temperature is measured," says O'Neil in a video call. None of his relatives and friends have contracted the virus.

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Drug type

The vaccine you have been given, Chadox1 nCoV-19, is made up of a virus, Chadox1, which is a weakened version of the common cold virus (adenovirus) and causes infections in chimpanzees. Then it has been genetically modified by adding a DNA fragment, the one that makes Covid-10 deadly.

O'Neil, like the rest of the study participants, does not know - and will not know until the end of the project - whether he has received the Chadox1 nCoV-19 vaccine or another virus. You have been encouraged to write a virtual diary where you can record possible symptoms for the next seven days or for complications over the next three weeks.

"We have been told that we will receive a series of visits to assess the immune response to the vaccine. I have proposed because I am Australian and I feel lucky because in our country the virus has not been as lethal as in Italy and Spain, and I feel duty of doing something. Afraid of collateral damage? I'm more afraid of the coronavirus than the effects of the vaccine . It's a terrible disease, whatever it takes to help this team, I'm going to do it. "

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