Lilly Covid-19 antibody treatment trial paused. Experts say that's normal

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paused its Covid-19 vaccine trial after a volunteer had an unexplained illness. J&J said the participant's condition was being reviewed and evaluated by the Data Safety Monitoring Board. It's unclear whether the volunteer who had an adverse event had received the actual vaccine or a placebo.It's not uncommon for late-stage trials to hit bumps, said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Research Translational Institute in California.

Dr. Carlos del Rio, infectious diseases expert at Emory University School of Medicine, agreed."Pauses are not infrequent in a clinical trial, and in these studies, they are going to be probably a bit more frequent as the development line for a product is significantly truncated,” he said.Just last week, Lilly requested emergency use authorization from the Food and Drug Administration for the antibody treatment, using data from a separate clinical trial — not the trial that was just paused.

No published or peer-reviewed results have been released about the treatment, but last month the company released partial results from aof the drug, which suggested it could help keep patients with mild to moderate forms of the illness from progressing to a point where they would need to be hospitalized.

The paused trial is sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. When the

 

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Pretty sure neither of those women are Melania.

didn't know the justice department file civil suits on behalf of the person in the White House? thought a civil suit for deformation and possibly breaking a NDR who is the fodder of his private attorney -/ Since I am a taxpayer and pay way more than $725 a year on taxes I vote NO

Why are we paying legal fees Melania Trump ?

Americans needed to hear in her own words how Melanie is such a hypocrite.

BillBarr got his priorities in order & it isn’t working for Americans We got: COVID19 Election interferences by foreign & domestic enemies Trump & his family breaking laws Civil unrest senatemajldr packing the courts Natural disasters Domestic terrorism And many more

The US Justice Department is pursuing a civil matter against a private citizen?

Nice to say that the justice Department is independent of the whims of the president. ImpeachBarr

How do they any standing what so ever? Talk about abusing power and taxpayer dollars.

Bill Barr suing for donnie.

These two things seem to be unrelated.

Uh..... NBC what's going on here peeps? Two different stories.

Since when has the entire Justice Department become the President's personal attorneys in what should be a civil case? I don't want my tax dollars paying for any of the Trump clan's foibles.

What about the Antifa Domestic Terrorist shooting the American VETERAN in DENVER? denvershooting VeteransForTrump veteranslivesmatter stopthehate media & Democrats! biasedmedia stopthelies media & Democrats!

And this picture has what to do with Barr politicizing an unenforceable NDA?

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