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The Phase 3 clinical trial was temporarily stopped on Monday, according to the company. It is not known whether the unidentified disease is vaccine-related, but clinical protocols require a pause in your research.
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The independent knowledge security oversight committee, which oversees the trial, will review what happened and whether it is safe to resume.
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“We will have to respect the privacy of this participant. We are also learning more about this participant’s illness, and it is vital to have all the facts before sharing more information,” the company said.
Participants began enrolling in the test on September 23.
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AstraZeneca’s 30,000-person trial was adjourned from September 8, about a week after its release.
A player in an AstraZeneca trial in the UK developed a serious neurological disease that may have been caused by the vaccine. As a result, AstraZeneca has discontinued all international trials of the COVID-19 vaccine while the case can be investigated.
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AstraZeneca also briefly suspended trials in July because some other player developed symptoms of neurological disease of multiple sclerosis, the news of the resolution was not made public until the time of the case. The first user made the decision to “have an undiagnosed case of multiple sclerosis, which the independent panel concluded was not related to the vaccine,” the company said.
The AstraZeneca vaccine, in a generation developed through the University of Oxford, is the only vaccine that uses a monkey virus as a formula for administration.
An independent review committee in Britain allowed AstraZeneca’s trial to resume in mid-September, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has kept the American trial on hold for reasons that are unclear.
The company isn’t allowed to release much information about the trial because of privacy concerns, and U.K. and U.S. regulators have been quiet about the incident.
“It’s a black box, as it deserves to be, but it’s confusing,” said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease specialist at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville, Tennessee, on Monday. “If you think the test deserves tons, ” he said on Monday. To continue (in the US), why are you taking a position in the UK?”
Schaffner said the two neurological incidents in AstraZeneca’s trial would make any independent critic anxious. “If I were a member of this knowledge security oversight committee, it would give me a chill,” he said.
Two other federally funded candidate vaccines, one manufactured through Pfizer and a German biotechnology company BioNTech, and through Moderna, a biotechnology company founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, are also in Phase 3 with at least another 30,000 people each.
Each uses a generation called messenger RNA for their vaccines, and their trials are expected to be completed next month. Novavax Inc. , a biotechnology company in Gaithersburg, Maryland, another generation, plans to begin its Phase 3 trial this fall. .
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