AstraZeneca Clinical Trials for COVID-19 Vaccine Stopped

A clinical trial for an advanced Covid-19 vaccine was stopped after one volunteer came down with an unexplained illness. Experts say that the trial, a joint venture between the University of Oxford and AstraZeneca, should have been stopped for safety purposes.

Alain Fischer, an immunologist, told AFP, “It’s a totally reasonable measure of caution. This should be seen as the proper functioning of a vaccine evaluation system.” The trial will be paused until scientists can uncover more about the unexplained illness. A spokesperson for AstraZeneca said the pause was “routine.” And that it was voluntary.

Prof Robert Booy, a University of Sydney professor of vaccinology, told the Guardian, “This could have just been a high fever and it turns out they’ve got appendicitis.  My bet would be that they find something in this participant that is not causal [from the vaccine]. It’ll take them about one to two weeks to ascertain this, and then they will probably restart the trial in a month.”

This vaccine is one of six in Phase 3 trials around the world.

UPDATE: On September 12, AstraZeneca announced that they had resumed the trial.

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