BREAKING: AstraZeneca's #Covid19 vaccine trials have been paused as the company investigates a serious adverse event the occurred in the UK. Not clear if the unexplained illness is linked to the vaccine, or what it was.
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So obviously someone got sick from the vaccine. They need to just say it
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Someone got sick. It's not yet known if the illness was caused by the vaccine. That is being investigated.
Don't overstate what is known, please.
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I guess this is precisely the reason why vaccines are subject to long and accurate testing procedures, before being freely distributed among the population
Any shortening of these procedures increases the risk of adverse effects
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The important distinction will be between a "routine" halt and a not-so-routine one.
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it is unlikely they put hold because one individual showed adverse reaction to vaccine when they may have already vaccinated 100s if not 1000s. They must be more than that.
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I worked in clinical research projects a long time ago, if they halted the study it must be pretty serious. In our studies we had adverse reactions, but nothing ever serious enough to shut down.
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I have a decade of experience in pharmaceutical safety and I highly doubt this to be true. You do not stop a trial of this size and scope based on a single adverse event, even a death. MHRA has issued lenient guidance on covid-19 trials as well.
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My thoughts are the same...if they have a substantial number of moderate autoimmune events & then something like Stevens-Johnsons or Guillain-Barré then I could see a hold but not one event in singularity...& AZ has a history of massaging their safety data in trials
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