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University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine trial axed

University of Queensland COVID-19 vaccine trial axed

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The University of Queensland and biotech company CSL have pulled the plug on further trials of their COVID-19 vaccine after antibodies in the vaccine were found to interfere with HIV tests.

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These sort of things happen occasionally in other clinical trials too. We just don’t hear about it. There’s perhaps never been so much attention on a single clinical trial as there is on the trial of this and other potential COVID-19 vaccines.