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COVID breakthrough? Oxford University says its coronavirus vaccine triggers dual immune response

2020-07-20 | 🔗
Fox News medical contributor Dr. Marc Siegel joins Tucker Carlson with insight on 'Tucker Carlson Tonight.'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
A lot of news recently about a resurgence of they will hung coronavirus here in the United States youre starting to hear some apologistspoliticians suggesting another round of lockdowns. That question may be moot because researchers, in the- u dot, K, claim theyve developed a viable vaccine for the coronavirus. We turn, as we always do to Fox NEWS medical contributor, Dr Marc Siegel, Hey Doctor Tucker. This is really big news tonight. I am optimistic about this and this Oxford University vaccine, which is a very modern vaccine using genetic material using a different kind of a virus from a chimpanzee to bring the payload in that actually starts the war against the coronavirus, thats. What we are talking about here, Tucker a war ive, never described a war to you this way before its a war in the bloodstream, a
war of our immune cells, fighting a virus and if they vaccine works, the vaccine causes those immune cells to be revved up. The immune cells that weve always talked about are the b cells that make antibodies. We are talking, antibodies, antibodies, antibodies. This vaccine actually does make those antibodies. They studied one thousand volunteers. Half of them got a meningitis vaccine and the other half got this vaccine and they found that the people that got this vaccine made the antibodies that we need called neutralizing antibodies to neutralize the virus. Theres a bigger story here, Tucker Itsy cell. I never talked about before its called t cell, those of the real immune warriors against the virus, and they never of course, get top billing right. The t cells, what does a t cell do one kind of t cell AIDS, those antibodies and attacking the virus?
Its called a helper cell, the other one, the most prodigious powerful cell in the human body is a natural killer cell. He deserves the name, it literally attacks the virus and kills it. You know they found with this vaccine. At fourteen days and twenty days they found an abundance of those antibodies, an abundance of those t cells, a great marker of immunity. We have to see how this goes over the several weeks and months now it will be tried and thirty thousand people around the world. This is very positive news that we are going to have a working vaccine here. Tucker the Oxford vaccine with Astrazeneca involved very, very, very promising, wow and unexpected Dr Siegel. Thank you for that report, appreciate it follow the science Tucker.
Transcript generated on 2020-07-21.