Health
Australian COVID vaccine terminated due to HIV ‘false positives’ – Sydney Morning Herald
The University of Queensland-CSL coronavirus vaccine will be abandoned after participants returned false positive HIV tests.
A health official, not authorised to speak publicly, told The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald on Thursday night the government had moved swiftly in the past 48 hours to secure tens of millions more doses of candidate vaccines, including from Oxford University-AstraZeneca, to cover for the 51 million doses the home-grown product was to supply.
The UQ vaccine candidate uses a protein and adjuvant platform, containing the COVID-19 spike protein and a “molecular clamp”. A small component is derived…
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