AstraZeneca not involved in planned COVID-19 human challenge trial

AstraZeneca said that it has no involvement in a planned clinical trial where volunteers would be given an experimental vaccine and then be deliberately infected with the new coronavirus, as reported by the Financial Times.

A company spokesman on Wednesday also ruled out that AstraZeneca’s experimental COVID-19 vaccine, which was initially developed by the University of Oxford, would play a role in the reported trial.

The FT said the so-called human challenge trial is expected to begin in January at a quarantine facility in London.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-vaccine-uk-astraze/astrazeneca-not-involved-in-planned-covid-19-human-challenge-trial-idUSKCN26E2KC