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J&J says review of illness that led to pause of coronavirus vaccine trial could take days

October 12, 2020 9:08 PM EDT

By Reuters Staff

(Reuters) - Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday it would take a few days at least to hear from a safety monitoring panel about its review of the company's late-stage COVID-19 vaccine trial after announcing that the large study had been paused due to an unexplained illness in one participant.

The pause comes around a month after AstraZeneca Plc also suspended trials of its experimental coronavirus vaccine - which uses a similar technology - due to a participant falling ill. That trial remains on pause.

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