{"id":15667,"date":"2026-02-26T12:50:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T18:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/?post_type=jtf_topics&#038;p=15667"},"modified":"2026-03-08T12:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T17:53:08","slug":"did-all-the-animals-die-in-covid-trials","status":"publish","type":"jtf_topics","link":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/jtf_topics\/did-all-the-animals-die-in-covid-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"Did all the animals die in COVID trials?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\">[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In a 2021\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ValerieAnne1970\/status\/2025556178625814828?s=20\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noindex\">committee hearing<\/a>,\u00a0Texas State Senator Bob Hall\u00a0claims that the COVID vaccine skipped normal animal and human testing, that animals died during early tests, and that the public is being used as test subjects while the vaccine is still experimental and linked to rising deaths. The video from this hearing is making the rounds again.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Facts:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]We don\u2019t know where this claim started, but it does not make sense. If someone says animal tests were skipped, how can they also say all the animals died in a test? That is not true.<\/p>\n<p>In fact,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/wanbrc.uw.edu\/important-role-of-animal-research-in-mrna-covid-19-vaccine-development\/\" rel=\"noopener\">animal studies<\/a>\u00a0were done\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.efpia.eu\/news-events\/the-efpia-view\/blog-articles\/fitting-vaccine-research-into-one-year-were-animals-used\/\" rel=\"noopener\">at the same time<\/a>\u00a0as human trials to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk\/human-diseases\/covid-19-animal-research\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">test<\/a>\u00a0the safety of the COVID vaccines and how well they worked. The vaccines went through\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC8052930\/\" rel=\"noopener\">full testing<\/a>\u00a0before the FDA allowed them to be used under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Since then, billions of people have safely received COVID vaccines. Hospital data shows these vaccines\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infectiousdiseaseadvisor.com\/news\/covid19-vaccine-effectiveness-hospitalization-outcomes\/\" rel=\"noopener\">lower the risk<\/a>\u00a0of severe illness and death.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row source=&#8221;&#8221; text=&#8221;Clinical Trials&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h2|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221; google_fonts=&#8221;font_family:Abril%20Fatface%3Aregular|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal&#8221; link=&#8221;&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1708910874436{border-top-width: 1px !important;border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;border-left-width: 1px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;The Claim:&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h3|text_align:left&#8221; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]In a 2021\u00a0committee hearing,\u00a0Texas State Senator Bob Hall\u00a0claims that&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"parent":0,"template":"","jtf_topic_subjects":[317,316,189,318],"class_list":["post-15667","jtf_topics","type-jtf_topics","status-publish","hentry","jtf_topic_subjects-animal-testing","jtf_topic_subjects-bob-hall","jtf_topic_subjects-covid-19","jtf_topic_subjects-emergency-use-authorization-eua","entry","no-media"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/jtf_topics"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15668,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topics\/15667\/revisions\/15668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"jtf_topic_subjects","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voicesforvaccines.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/jtf_topic_subjects?post=15667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}