{"id":4869,"date":"2020-04-29T11:42:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:42:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=4869"},"modified":"2020-04-29T11:42:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-29T10:42:41","slug":"im-very-much-alive-elisa-granato-vaccine-trial-volunteer-says-debunking-rumours-of-her-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/im-very-much-alive-elisa-granato-vaccine-trial-volunteer-says-debunking-rumours-of-her-death\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m very much alive,\u201d Elisa Granato, vaccine trial volunteer says, debunking rumours of her death"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A blog site reported the demise of a trial volunteer of a potential COVID-19 treatment.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elisa Granato, a volunteer in a trial of a potential COVID-19 jab at Oxford University, said she is very much alive. The UK government has also said the same, and the WHO has not come out to counter that Granato is alive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Last week, a blog post<\/a> (archived here<\/a>) widely shared online claimed that microbiologist Elisa Granato, one of the volunteers who took part in a coronavirus vaccine trial in Oxford, U.K., had died following complications after receiving the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Opera News, a Nigerian pop platform financed by Chinese media entrepreneurs, further added that it sourced the report from another blog<\/a>. Meanwhile, the referenced blog\u2019s publication had within three days about 80,000 views, the highest it’s attained since its debut two years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the piece referenced a statement by unnamed researchers that Ms Granato “died two days after the vaccine was administered,” adding that four other volunteers were battling complications from the jab.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe four in critical conditions will be fine, and these are expected reactions from the vaccines, hence a trial.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Dubawa gathered that scientists at the Oxford University first administered the trial vaccine, ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 to Elisa Granato. She was reportedly the first of two volunteers<\/a> \u2014 the other being Edward O\u2019Neill for the potential COVID-19 vaccine testing on Thursday, April 23rd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, contrary to swirling news of her demise, Ms Granato, all smiles, came out to say she was “very much alive”. A BBC Subsay video shared the revelation, featuring Granato sipping coffee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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….and here is Dr Elisa Granato in person. Alive and well pic.twitter.com\/Csw1WqmBQa<\/a><\/p>— Fergus Walsh (@BBCFergusWalsh) April 26, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>