Coronavirus vaccine trials halted as more volunteers become ill, Lummi Nation withdraws from AstraZe

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LUMMI NATION, Washington -- The Lummi Nation pulled out of the controversial AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine study this week, after a volunteer in the trial became ill with a neurological disorder.

Lawrence Solomon, Chairman of the Lummi Indian Business Council said, “We will continue to look for ways to protect our people from this virus. But after consultation with the Lummi Public Health Department, it was clear that the AstraZeneca vaccine trial was not a good fit.”

Meanwhile, Pfizer, the drug company carrying out experimental coronavirus vaccines on Navajos said the vaccine will not be ready before the election -- bringing to an end Trump's promise of a vaccine before the election.
"It was never going to happen. It was utterly unrealistic," said Lawrence Gostin, director of the WHO Collaborating Center on National and Global Health Law at Georgetown University. "Vaccines follow a timeline of good science, they don’t follow a timeline of electoral politics," Politico reported.

The controversial vaccine experiments on Navajos sank into the political campaign. Navajo Vice President Myron Lizer publicly joined Trump's campaign. The Navajo government urged Navajos to volunteer for the vaccine experiments.

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