AstraZeneca Resumes COVID-19 Vaccine Trial In U.K.; Trials In U.S., Other Countries Remain On Hold
NPR: AstraZeneca Resumes Its COVID-19 Vaccine Trials In The U.K.
“Drugmaker AstraZeneca announced Saturday that its COVID-19 vaccine studies have resumed in the United Kingdom, though not yet in the United States. The vaccine trials had been placed on hold around the world earlier in the week after a U.K. participant in one of the studies developed a neurological illness. The candidate vaccine was developed by the University of Oxford along with AstraZeneca. The goal of the large studies is to see whether the vaccine is capable of preventing COVID-19 and whether it is safe…” (Palca, 9/12).
Additional coverage of the trial’s resumption in the U.K. is available from New York Times, POLITICO, and Reuters.
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