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Fauci: AstraZeneca pause in vaccine production 'not uncommon'
Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious diseases expert, said Wednesday that AstraZeneca's pause in its vaccine clinical trial due to a "potentially unexplained illness" is "not uncommon."
Fauci told "CBS This Morning" that the halting of one of the leading coronavirus vaccine clinical trials is "not uncommon," noting the documented reaction to the vaccine is why trials are conducted.
"It's not uncommon at all," the director for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said. "We see this generally for the most part ... it's an adverse event that's related to something else that just happened to have occurred during the period of time that the clinical trial is on."
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But Fauci emphasized that researchers cannot assume the reaction is separate from the tested vaccine or treatment.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/fauci-astrazeneca-pause-in-vaccine-production-not-uncommon/ar-BB18RoC7?li=BBnb7Kz
True but it illustrates why it's extremely unlikely we'll have a viable vaccine before Nov. 3.
