"The BBC understands that the volunteer did not receive the vaccine."

Covid: No safety concerns found with Oxford vaccine trial after Brazil death

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-54634518

AstraZeneca's stock price rebounded on this news:

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/patient-astrazeneca-covid-19-vaccine-trial-dies

Question: Why is AstraZeneca using a potentially lethal vaccine as a placebo, instead of a

saline solution?

Answer: To increase the likelihood that the experimental C-19 vaccine will be "proven" "safe."

From Children's Health Defense:

The occurrence of not one but two cases of TM—a condition ordinarily reputed to be “rare”—

ought to raise a red flag because the Covid-19 vaccine, by its developers’ own acknowledgement,

is highly reactogenic. The Oxford researchers’ July report in The Lancet (published around the

same time as the first TM incident) indicated that a single dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine

had a higher “reactogenicity profile” (a stronger inflammatory response) than the meningitis vaccine

against which it is being compared. That is saying something, given that the type of meningitis

vaccine being used as a comparison is itself notorious for producing serious adverse reactions—

including TM. Commenting on this point, one observer who is favorable to the push for a Covid-19

vaccine but questions the Oxford group’s decision not to use an inert saline placebo has stated,

“comparing an experimental COVID-19 vaccine that has so far been shown to cause a fair amount

of physical reactions . . . to a meningitis vaccine that can also cause these temporary side effects

will certainly paint a kinder picture of the COVID vaccine.”

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/news/the-intertwined-history-of-myelitis-and-vaccines/