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.
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