Panelists in webinar address concerns raised over vaccines and fetal cell line Jan 17, 2021 catholic news service A man at the New York state COVID-19 vaccination site, Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York City, receives a dose of the coronavirus vaccine Jan. 13, 2021. (Credit: Brendan McDermid/Reuters via CNS.) Participants in a Jan. 14 webinar sponsored by the Institute for Human Ecology at The Catholic University of America discussed concerns raised by some over a fetal cell line being used in some phase of COVID-19 vaccine development but concluded the cell line is probably sufficiently removed from the "original evil" to ameliorate Catholic apprehensions.