Pascal Soriot, AstraZeneca CEO (Zach Gibson/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

FDA gives As­traZeneca the thumbs-up to restart PhI­II Covid-19 vac­cine tri­als, and J&J is prepar­ing to re­sume its study

Sev­er­al coun­tries had restart­ed their por­tions of As­traZeneca’s glob­al Phase III Covid-19 vac­cine tri­al af­ter the study was paused world­wide in ear­ly Sep­tem­ber, but the US no­tably stayed on the side­lines — un­til now. Fri­day af­ter­noon the phar­ma gi­ant an­nounced the all clear from US reg­u­la­tors. And on top of that, J&J an­nounced Fri­day evening that it’s prepar­ing to re­sume its own Phase III vac­cine tri­al.

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