Covid-19 vaccine trial paused due to unknown illness
By Jayanth
@jayanth_77 (7180)
India
September 9, 2020 12:24am CST
A pharma company Astra Zeneca has halted Covid-19 vaccine trials as one of the volunteers fell ill.
Doctors and researchers will do a safety review before further trials are resumed. The volunteer was from UK and testing across US and other countries has also been stopped.
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca said Tuesday it had "voluntarily paused" a randomized clinical trial of its coronavirus vaccine in what it called a routine action after a volunteer developed an unexplained illness.
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@jobelbojel (35987)
• Philippines
9 Sep 20
@jayanth_77 I salute the volunteers and frontliners.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
9 Sep 20
@jobelbojel yes the vaccine volunteers are risking their life for science.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
9 Sep 20
Yes there are risks when you sign up as a volunteer. Hope the illness is not life threatening.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
9 Sep 20
Yes hope the volunteer recovers and the issue in vaccine is resolved.
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@simone10 (54187)
• Louisville, Kentucky
11 Sep 20
@jayanth_77 that is very brave of them to do.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
12 Sep 20
@simone10 Yes the volunteers are very brave indeed.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
9 Sep 20
Yes new vaccine trial is a risky business and volunteers are risking their lives for the world to be a better place by winning the war against COVID
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@Overflowing (3709)
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9 Sep 20
oh no,,what now.. i hope everything will be ok already
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
9 Sep 20
This can happen with any vaccine during trials. Unless the illness is not serious and not related the vaccine trials can't begin. Hope other vaccines under testing are not facing similar issues.
@GreatMartin (23672)
• Ft. Lauderdale, Florida
9 Sep 20
They are rushing it too fast--form political reasons!!
@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
10 Sep 20
Astra Zeneca had a safety mechanism which triggered the alert and so the covid vaccine trial was halted immediately. Note sure how robust other pharma company safety mechanism is .
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@arunima25 (87855)
• Bangalore, India
19 Sep 20
That was a real setback to all around globe waiting for vaccines. It seems a safe and effective vaccine is not very near and we have to wait and live with the virus.
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@arunima25 (87855)
• Bangalore, India
20 Sep 20
@jayanth_77 Once a virus is here, it's here for good. It doesn't leave. We have to find a vaccine or a better treatment to it.
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
19 Sep 20
Yes it will take a long time for the virus to leave us .
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@jayanth_77 (7180)
• India
20 Sep 20
@arunima25 yes vaccine is urgently needed to stop the spread of the corona virus.
