US pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Tuesday suspended its Phase 3 trial of its lab-produced antibody treatment in hospitalized patients.

2020 Nobel Prize for Medicine awarded to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice “for the discovery of Hepatitis C virus"

Nine vaccine candidates are in last-stage trials

Russian researchers published their trial findings last week in the Lancet

But there has been massive pressure to roll out a vaccine quickly as the pandemic continues to take its toll.

China and Russia have already approved vaccines without waiting for the conclusion of trials