CEO says AstraZeneca likely to run new global trial of COVID-19 vaccine

26-11-2020 Cyprus Mail CyprusMail Cool

CEO says AstraZeneca likely to run new global...

AstraZeneca is likely to run an additional global trial to assess the efficacy of its COVID-19 vaccine using a lower dosage, its chief executive was quoted as saying on Thursday amid questions over the results from its late-stage study.

Instead of adding the trial to an ongoing U.S. process, AstraZeneca might launch a fresh study to evaluate a lower dosage of its vaccine that performed better than a full dosage, Pascal Soriot was quoted as saying in a Bloomberg News report.

“Now that we’ve found what looks like a better efficacy we have to validate this, so we need to do an additional...

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CEO says AstraZeneca likely to run new global trial of COVID-19 vaccine

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