Vaccine trial paused, Britain blames the young, music festivals silenced

A promising vaccine trial has been paused, troubling numbers from the UK, and the Tamworth Country Music Festival cancelled.

Kishor Napier-Raman

Sep 09, 2020

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Troy Cassar-Daley performs during the 2020 Tamworth Country Music Festival (Image: AAP/Peter Lorimer)

Vaccine trial paused

Days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison triumphantly announced that a deal with AstraZeneca could mean Australians were vaccinated by January, the company’s stage three clinical trial has been paused over safety concerns.

The trial, conducted by the company and the University of Oxford, was suspended after a participant in the United Kingdom had a serious adverse reaction.

We don’t know much about what that reaction is, but AstraZeneca called the pause “a routine action whenever there is a potentially unexplained illness in a large trial”.

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About the Author

Kishor Napier-Raman

Reporter

Before joining Crikey in 2018, Kishor was an editor at Honi Soit, an intern at The Sydney Morning Herald, and a legal reporter for Justinian. He has degrees in arts and law from the University of Sydney.