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The EU's drug regulator would reportedly approve a COVID-19 vaccine even if it worked in less than 50% of people — a lower threshold than the FDA

A clinical trial volunteer participates in Johnson & Johnson's study to test a coronavirus vaccine candidate.The European Union's drug regulator would approve a COVID-19 vaccine even if it worked in less than half of people, the Wall Street Journal reported.

In comparison, the US's drug regulator, the Food and Drug Administration , expects a vaccine efficacy rate of at least 50%. The news suggests that the European Medicine Agency and the FDA could disagree on which vaccines to approve.The European Union's drug regulator is reportedly willing to approve a COVID-19 vaccine even if trials show it works in less than half of people — suggesting its approval criteria is lower than that of the US Food and Drug Administration .

Officials at the European Medicine Agency said that even if the efficacy rate of a vaccine was below 50%, they could give it the green light as long it was safe, per the

 

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