AstraZeneca vaccine coming soon, ’til then, mask, wash, distance, Lundquist researcher urges
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“It is speeding up vaccine trial results,” he said.
Daar is a member of a team at The Lundquist Institute that has enrolled nearly 300 volunteers in the Phrase III trial of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Nationwide, 30,000 volunteers are being enrolled. Two-thirds of the volunteers are receiving the vaccine. One-third are receiving a placebo. Vaccines with successful Phase III trials may be approved for general use.
The quicker people who received the placebo get COVID, the sooner Daar’s team can compare them to the percentage of people who received the vaccine, he explained.