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Researchers highlight ‘questionable’ data in Russian coronavirus vaccine trial results

Open letter flags results that appear to be duplicated and calls for access to the underlying data on the first COVID-19 vaccine to be approved for widespread use.
  1. Alison Abbott
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A group of researchers have expressed concern about repetitive patterns of data in a paper describing early-phase clinical trials of Russia’s coronavirus vaccine — the first jab worldwide to be approved for widespread use.

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Nature 585, 493 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-02619-4

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  • Correction 15 September 2020: An earlier version of this story mistakenly said that the open letter was published in The Lancet.

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