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COVID Vaccine Trial In County Paused Due To 'Political Pressure,' Doctor Says

An AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial was set to start this week on the campus of JFK Medical Center in Atlantis but is now on a "slight pause." Dr. Larry Bush, the vaccine trial's primary principal investigator, recently talked to the press at the facility.
Thomas Cordy
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Palm Beach Post
An AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine trial was set to start this week on the campus of JFK Medical Center in Atlantis but is now on a "slight pause." Dr. Larry Bush, the vaccine trial's primary principal investigator, recently talked to the press at the facility.

The COVID-19 vaccine trial was set to start this week at the JFK Medical Center but is now on a "slight pause" until it gets approval from the FDA.

After much fanfare about its launch, the vaccine trial for COVID-19 in Palm Beach County is on pause because of "political pressure," its principal investigator says.

Researchers said at a news conference Aug. 17 that they had received the vaccine and were ready to administer it to the first 10 test subjects.

But the chief investigator for the vaccine trial confirmed to The Palm Beach Post on Thursday that the trial is on pause because of a question by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on whether a European trial is good enough to start manufacturing and distributing the vaccine.

Read more from our news partner at the Palm Beach Post.

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