A pause in a major vaccine trial shows why Trump can't rush science.
Donald Trump’s effort to force science into serving his reelection campaign ran into a pothole Tuesday.
The reason was that one trial subject developed what the company described as a “potentially unexplained illness.”In large trials, illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully.First, there’s nothing unusual about this development. They happen routinely in clinical trials and aren’t unexpected when a trial comprises as many as 30,000 subjects, as this one does.
There are no indications, as yet, that the suspension will be prolonged or how it might affect clinical trials of other vaccines. Three candidates, including the AstraZeneca vaccine, which is being developed in conjunction with the University of Oxford, are undergoing Phase 3 trials in the U.S. and elsewhere.The others, based on a messenger RNA model never before used on humans, are under development by Moderna and by Pfizer. The AstraZeneca vaccine uses a different technology.
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