evidence: Dr Granato was one of the first two volunteers injected in a trial of potential Covid-19 vaccine at Oxford University After a fake article about her death circulated on social media, Dr Elisa Granato, one of the first two people who were injected as part of the United Kingdom's human trials for a coronavirus vaccine, on Sunday said that she was "very much alive." [...] Granato was one of the first two volunteers to be injected in a trial of a potential Covid-19 vaccine at Oxford University.