AstraZeneca pauses COVID-19 vaccine trial
By DW
13 September 2020 |
11:20 am
Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca says it has "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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