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AstraZeneca's COVID-19 Vaccine On Hold: A Reminder Product Development Is Never Straightforward

Phase III Trial Stopped A Week After Initiation

 
• By Jessica Merrill

AstraZeneca – one of the frontrunners in the race to develop a COVID-19 vaccine – has voluntarily put a hold on the Phase III trial due to an adverse event.

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AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford have put a voluntary clinical trial hold on the Phase III trial testing their COVID-19 vaccine due to an adverse event. The companies confirmed the move in the evening on 8 September, only about a week after initiating the Phase III trial.

While the development of several COVID-19 vaccines across the industry has been moving at an unprecedented pace and remarkably smoothly...

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