The U. S. infectious disease expert is a U. S. infectious disease expert. But it’s not the first time Leader said AstraZeneca’s suspension of the latest tests by his COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows “one of the protective valves” incorporated into the studies to detect potential problems.
“It’s unlucky that this happened and I hope you can continue with the rest of the trial. But you don’t know, you want to do more research,” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of infectious diseases at the National Institutes of Health. told CBS This Morning on Wednesday.
On Tuesday night, AstraZeneca announced that his final-stage studies were temporarily on hold while the company investigated whether the “potentially unexplained disease” of a study volunteer was a side effect of the injection or a coincidence.
Behind the scenes monitors known as Britain’s ‘Safety and Data Oversight Board’ have stopped vaccines while alerting their safety counterparts in the United States, said Dr. Moncef Slaoui of Operation Warp Speed, the program of vaccine progression of the Trump administration.
Late last month, AstraZeneca began recruiting another 30,000 people in the United States for its largest vaccine study. It also tests the vaccine, developed through the University of Oxford, on thousands of other people in Britain and in smaller studies in Brazil and South Africa. .
Scientists around the world have been struggling to expand a vaccine that opposes coronavirus since the onset of the pandemic and nearly 900,000 pandemic deaths were reported.
An AstraZeneca spokesman showed that vaccine disruption covers studies in the United States and other countries. The company would provide additional information about the disease.
Previous studies of the vaccine revealed serious side effects.
“It is vital to insist that this is the explanation for why you have other testing stages, to find out if those applicants are actually safe,” Fauci said. “It’s one of the protective valves you have in clinical trials like this. “
It’s also not unusual to take study breaks to determine whether or not a reaction is actually related to the vaccine, he said.
“I’m worried. I’m just thinking about how the studies work and what we need you to do,” Dr. Carlos del Río of Emory University told the press, concerned about the AstraZeneca trials.
Two other vaccines are undergoing mass last-stage testing in the United States, one manufactured through Modern Inc. ‘s Pfizer. and the German company BioNTech. These two vaccine paintings from AstraZeneca, and the studios have already recruited about two-thirds of the necessary volunteers.
The progression came on the same day that AstraZeneca and 8 other drug brands issued a pledge, committing to meet the highest moral and clinical criteria in their vaccine progression.
The announcement follows fears that President Donald Trump will put pressure on the U. S. Food and Drug Administration to pass a vaccine before it becomes effective.
The United States has invested billions of dollars in efforts to expand several vaccines that oppose COVID-19, but the public fears that a vaccine is uncertain or useless may simply be disastrous and derail the immunization efforts of millions of Americans.
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