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nytimes.com
2020/12/11/world/australia/uq-coronavirus-vaccine-false-positive
Australia on Friday canceled a roughly $750 million plan for a large order of a locally developed coronavirus vaccine after the inoculation produced false positive test results for H.I.V. in some ...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-55269381
Covid: Australian vaccine abandoned over false HIV response
A promising Australian candidate for a coronavirus vaccine has been abandoned after trial participants returned false HIV positive results.
Australia had previously agreed to buy 51 million doses of the vaccine being developed by Australian firm CSL and the University of Queensland (UQ).
The government said orders of other vaccines would now fill the shortfall.
CSL and UQ stressed that the positive results were false - meaning trial participants' health was not at risk.
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What happened with the UQ/CSL vaccine?
The vaccine had been in stage one of trials, and proving to be effective in making antibodies.
But it also generated HIV antibodies in some recipients - which meant it showed false positives for HIV. Further testing proved the HIV wasn't there.
CSL and UQ said fixing the flaw would take about a year, prompting a decision to abandon the trial.
"It was likely to work. But we knew that we didn't want to have any issues with confidence, and this false-positive test may have caused some confusion and lack of confidence," said Brendan Murphy, secretary of Australia's Department of Health.
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We all know, I hope, that it has become impossible
to segregate the liars from the truth tellers.
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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