AstraZeneca shares drop 6% after company announces 'routine' safety pause in vaccine trial

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Dado Ruvic | Reutersshares fell more than 6% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company said its late-stage trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine had been put on hold due to safety concerns.

"This is a routine action which has to happen whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in one of the trials, while it is investigated, ensuring we maintain the integrity of the trials, In large trials illnesses will happen by chance but must be independently reviewed to check this carefully," the company said in a statement to CNBC.

It said it was trying to expedite the review to "minimize any potential impact on the trial timeline."This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.

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BerkeleyJr It'll drop more and faster if/when we understand AMZN's health care benefits. Disguising the preventative & curative antiviral (antibacterial & antifungal too) actions, internally first? Seems (to me) many benefit from sickness, not health. We are so mistrained on health.

China has 5.000 Corona deaths, USA has 190.000 deaths and of course a better crises management from Donald Trump could have reduced the American losses. trump

Something about a 'new mRNA vaccine' being rushed for global deployment makes me suspicious (to each their own). Wouldn't be surprised if the 'pandemic' was to achieve this desired end result.

haha ha

What levers left cabal has to intimidate businesses? Or left making money at the cost of people?

I wish we would be smarter about how we share this information. Study would be put on hold if a participant got hit by a car or caught a stomach bug. This headline feeds antivaxxer narrative.

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willfnye looks like more anti-vax the media is just going to be ok with!! (You should be ok with people being skeptical of a rushed vaccine)

'Serious adverse side effects'. This aint coming anywhere near me

IT'S AN ANTIFA PLOT realDonaldTrump TrumpHatesVets

That’s fucked up

Lol

Hahahahahahahaha Routine blah blah bullshit

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