Pause in AstraZeneca vaccine trial not necessarily a setback, says UK health minister

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Britain's Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday that AstraZeneca's decision to pause its coronavirus vaccine trials was a challenge but would not necessarily set back efforts to develop a vaccine.

FILE PHOTO: Britain's Secretary of State for Health Matt Hancock arrives to attend a Cabinet meeting of senior government ministers at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London, Britain, September 1, 2020. REUTERS/Toby Melville/Pool/File Photo

LONDON - Britain’s Health Secretary Matt Hancock said on Wednesday that AstraZeneca’s decision to pause its coronavirus vaccine trials was a challenge but would not necessarily set back efforts to develop a vaccine. AstraZeneca Plc said it had paused global trials, including large late-stage trials, of its experimental coronavirus vaccine due to an unexplained illness in a study participant.

“It is obviously a challenge to this particular vaccine trial,” Hancock said on Sky News when asked about the pause in the trial. “It’s not actually the first time this has happened to the Oxford vaccine.” Asked whether it would set back the vaccine development process, he said: “Not necessarily, it depends on what they find when they do the investigation.”

 

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But Trump will still declare there is a vaccine before the November election and claim it is because of him that there is a vaccine.

Or course yes, lol.

Nobody believes a word you say Shifty.

If they're anything like FDA they'll fast track it, and do the research on the gen pop. And that's bullshit.

Not a setback, a total failure 👎

so it's deadly then

WHAT ?

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