New Delhi: Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate’s late-stage study was paused as the company probes into a participant’s “unexplained illness”.
In a statement on Monday, the company said that illnesses, accidents and other so-called adverse events “are an expected part of any clinical study, especially large studies,” but that its physicians and a safety monitoring panel would try to determine what might have caused the illness.
Johnson & Johnson temporarily pauses its #COVID19 vaccine candidate clinical trials due to unexplained illness in one of the participants: Agency reports pic.twitter.com/Er61Fsyiej
— DD News (@DDNewslive) October 13, 2020
The halt in the trial is at least the second such pause to occur among several vaccine candidates that have reached large-scale final tests in the United States.
The company refused to divulge any more details about the illness, citing the participant’s privacy.
