Fauci: ‘The astrazeneca vaccine was suspended due to a serious side effect’ – Health

Top US epidemiologist Anthony Fauci said today that AstraZeneca’s decision to suspend global testing of its experimental coronavirus vaccine was unfortunate, but not an unusual safety measure in the vaccine development process.

AstraZeneca has announced the discontinuation of clinical trials, including end-stage trials, to allow an independent scientific committee to assess the safety conditions after an outbreak of one of the participants in an unspecified disease trial.

According to AMPE, Fauci, director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said that this interruption is not unusual in the development of a vaccine and that he hopes the company will continue with its tests.

“This particular candidate (vaccine) from AstraZeneca had a serious side effect, meaning it is waiting for the rest of the individual volunteers who have signed up until it can find out exactly what happened,” Fauci told CBS.

“It’s really one of those safety valves that you have in clinical trials like this, so it’s unfortunate that this happened,” Fauci said. “We hope they solve it and can continue with the rest of the test, but nobody knows.” They will have to investigate further. “

The vaccine, developed by AstraZeneca in conjunction with the University of Oxford, was named by the World Health Organization as probably the world’s leading candidate vaccine and the most advanced in terms of its development.