Why did Australia’s University of Queensland/CSL coronavirus vaccine fail?

Australia’s hopes of a locally developed Covid-19 vaccine have been dashed with news that the University of Queensland/CSL vaccine would not proceed to further clinical trials.Unlike news about the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine days earlier, there were no safety concerns with the UQ/CSL vaccine.According to a statement to the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX) on Friday, CSL said participants in the Phase 1 trial received “false positive” results to HIV tests. They were not infected with HIV,…

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