As­traZeneca pub­lish­es Covid-19 vac­cine PhI­II pro­to­cols in lock­step with Mod­er­na and Pfiz­er. How are they dif­fer­ent?

Fol­low­ing in the steps of Mod­er­na and Pfiz­er, the oth­er two Amer­i­can drug­mak­ers cur­rent­ly in Phase III tri­als for their Covid-19 vac­cines, As­traZeneca post­ed its own study pro­to­cols over the week­end. The move is the lat­est in a se­ries of rare peeks be­hind the cur­tain, as such blue­prints are typ­i­cal­ly shared once such tri­als are com­plet­ed.

“Giv­en the un­prece­dent­ed glob­al im­pact of the Coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic and the need for pub­lic in­for­ma­tion, As­traZeneca has pub­lished the de­tailed pro­to­col and de­sign of our AZD1222 clin­i­cal tri­al. As with most clin­i­cal de­vel­op­ment, pro­to­cols are not typ­i­cal­ly shared pub­licly due to the im­por­tance of main­tain­ing con­fi­den­tial­i­ty and in­tegri­ty of tri­als. As­traZeneca con­tin­ues to work with in­dus­try peers to en­sure a con­sis­tent ap­proach to shar­ing time­ly clin­i­cal tri­al in­for­ma­tion,” the com­pa­ny said in a state­ment.

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