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AstraZeneca COVID vaccine on hold, W.H.O says "Wake-up call" over the delay
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September 11, 2020
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1:20Now PlayingAstraZeneca's pause of an experimental vaccine for the coronavirus after the illness of a participant is a "wake-up call" but should not discourage researchers, said the World Health Organization's (WHO) Chief Scientist.
"This is a wake-up call to recognise that there are ups and downs in clinical development and that we have to be prepared," says, World Health Organization Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan in a virtual briefing.
Governments are desperate for a vaccine to help end the COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused more than 900,000 deaths and global economic turmoil, and the WHO had flagged AstraZeneca's, being developed with Oxford University, as the most promising. However, the drugmaker suspended late-stage trials this week after a participant in Britain suffered from neurological symptoms.
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