AstraZeneca’s Chief Executive Pascal Soriot announced on Thursday that they could run a new global trial to evaluate the efficacy of the coronavirus vaccine candidate, Bloomberg News reported on Thursday.
According to the report, the company is likely to start a new trial to assess the performance of the lower dosage separate from the trial that is already underway in the US.
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