A Nurse in Spain Tested Positive for the Oxford New Coronavirus Vaccine

The Spanish Joan Pons Laplana is 45 years old and has lived in the U.K. for 20 years. He is also a member of the nursing management team at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals. Since the outbreak of COVID-19 in March this year, he has returned to the frontline and worked as a nurse in the intensive care unit. In June of this year, he voluntarily accepted the human trial test of the new coronavirus vaccine developed by Oxford University in the U.K. This week, he was diagnosed as positive.

Prior to this, Joan Pons Laplana was very proud of being a tester and very confident. He revealed, 'The only way to end this nightmare is to get a vaccination. Oxford has many scientific figures to prove this.', 'They sent me an email asking if I would take the test, and I said yes'.

He explained that he was not afraid, because so far, the test has been carried out smoothly, 'The risk of encountering problems is also very low', 'and as a citizen and a nurse, I must do my best.'

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In an interview with ABC News, he said, 'Working in the intensive care unit is very hard. Whether it is physically or mentally, it is 12 hours a day in shifts, and all protective equipment must be worn at all times. At the same time, psychological fear is even more tormenting. You will be afraid of being infected by the virus, and you will also be afraid of infecting your family and children, and seeing the suffering of the patient and dying alone.' He said, '300 companions have died, and many people have been infected with the virus. You will ask yourself, will I be the next one?'

Later, he turned from sadness to anger, 'If people knew what was happening in the hospital, they would not go out of their homes and crowded streets and public places. This virus spreads rapidly like fire. If we ignore this, it will It will make many things we do meaningless.'

In addition, he also expressed dissatisfaction with the government, 'It took a long time for them to order the lockdown, which is one of the reasons why the transmission rate and death rate of the virus are so high.' 

In September of this year, the vaccine test was suspended due to an illness of a female volunteer. The investigation revealed that the volunteer had a sudden onset of myelitis, but then the Independent Investigation Committee issued a statement saying that the vaccine was not the cause of myelitis and restarted the test.

Just this Wednesday, Joan Pons Laplana was tested positive in a test, and then he posted : He is currently in isolation in the room, hoping that the vaccine will help me defeat the virus. Although there is nothing to do, at least I feel pretty good now.