1 Aby vs 100 Gorillas<p>A ‘globally significant’ bank of biosamples from a study into the immune effects of Covid vaccines is set to be destroyed, two years after the award-winning research project was defunded by the Queensland Government. </p><p>Intended “to better understand the short, medium and long-term impacts of COVID-19 and COVID-19 vaccines in Queensland,” the QoVAX Safety and Efficacy Statewide Study boasted 10,000 adult participants across 86% of postcodes, both vaccinated and unvaccinated, generating over 100,000 biospecimens and 11 million data points.</p><p>“It’s a terrible example of research wastage and loss of a globally significant opportunity to realise benefits and generate knowledge through research based on the unique samples provided by the 10,000 Queenslanders who gave consent and participated,” Professor Davies, who heads up the Allergy Research Group at QUT, told Canberra Daily. </p><p><a href="https://canberradaily.com.au/queensland-government-to-destroy-globally-significant-covid-vaccine-study-biobank/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">canberradaily.com.au/queenslan</span><span class="invisible">d-government-to-destroy-globally-significant-covid-vaccine-study-biobank/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/covid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/covid19" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>covid19</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GetVaccinated" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetVaccinated</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GetBoosted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GetBoosted</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/vaccines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vaccines</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/health" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>health</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/QLD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QLD</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/QLDPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QLDPol</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a></p>