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Oxford kept Covid-19 vaccine trial volunteers in dark about dosing error, letter says – Hindustan Times
Reuters shared the letter – which it obtained from the university through a Freedom of Information request – with three different experts in medical ethics. The…
About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren’t informed that a mistake had been made after the blunder was discovered, documents obtained by Reuters show.
Instead, the dosing mishap was presented to the trial participants in a letter dated June 8 as an opportunity for University of Oxford researchers to learn how well the vaccine works at different doses. The letter was signed by the trial’s chief…
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