BBCNEWS BBC News October 1, 2021 22:03:00
It's interesting, what's happened here, actually. you don't often see this. so the regulators and this independent scientific body in the states have actually told merck, the drug company, "you have to stop this trial," not because there was anything wrong, but because it was so positive, because, as i said, you've got half of this group that weren't given this pill. and ethically, you can't keep going with this trial if you've worked out that it's quite protective of people, because there's half of the people that aren't protected. so they've actually said, "stop this." merck, instead, the dr...