{"id":2083,"date":"2020-10-15T03:09:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T03:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=2083"},"modified":"2020-10-15T03:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-10-15T03:09:59","slug":"3-covid-19-trials-have-been-paused-for-safety-thats-a-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2083","title":{"rendered":"3 Covid-19 Trials Have Been Paused for Safety. That\u2019s a Good Thing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times Health\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 By\u00a0<span class=\"css-1baulvz last-byline\"><a class=\"css-brehiz e1jsehar0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/carl-zimmer\">Carl Zimmer<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Oct. 14, 2020,\u00a0<span class=\"css-epvm6\">12:36 p.m. ET<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<header class=\"css-1oqewnb euiyums2\">\n<p id=\"article-summary\" class=\"css-1smgwul e1wiw3jv0\">Experts were comforted that companies are following safety precautions. They pointed out that pauses in vaccine trials are common, but pauses in treatment trials like Eli Lilly\u2019s are rare.\u00a0 This week, two high-profile, late-stage clinical trials \u2014 Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s test of a coronavirus vaccine and Eli Lilly\u2019s study of a Covid-19 drug \u2014 were put on pause because of possible safety concerns. Just a month earlier, AstraZeneca\u2019s vaccine trial was paused after two volunteers became seriously ill.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/14\/health\/covid-clinical-trials.html?auth=login-email&amp;login=email\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"css-epvm6\">\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NY Times Health\u00a0 \u00a0|\u00a0 \u00a0 By\u00a0Carl Zimmer\u00a0 \u00a0 |\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Oct. 14, 2020,\u00a012:36 p.m. ET Experts were comforted that companies are following safety precautions. They pointed out that pauses in vaccine <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=2083\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[11,826,356,236,803,827],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-newsroom","tag-astrazeneca","tag-covid-19-trials","tag-eli-lilly","tag-johnson-johnson","tag-pandemic","tag-vaccines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2084,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions\/2084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}