Vaccine diary
No shots in the dark: strict checks put vaccine trial back on track
After a dramatic pause in the ChAdOx1 test, I arrived for my second dose as a volunteer at the UCT clinical site
28 September 2020 - 19:21
Rigorous safety guidelines control the testing of vaccines – and the clinical trials of experimental Covid-19 vaccines are no different – which was demonstrated by the pausing of the ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 clinical trial on September 7 to investigate why a British participant had “unexplained neurological symptoms”...
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